Word: hearkening
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...poker parties are more to the Princetonian taste than are missionary meetings. All in vain has the genial old Scotch president bewailed this condition of affairs. His mild admonitions, his lectures, long drawn out and frequently repeated, his pleas and threats, all alike have fallen on ears disinclined to hearken. Occasional suspensions have fallen short of the object aimed at, and even stronger discipline has held few terrors for youths bent on a good time. The students have looked upon the quiet village people as victims foreordained to suffer the whims, and freaks, and deviltries of college men. When...
...FRINGE of my napkin, Doo Ling Hichae-chong sends unto thee greeting: Thou mayest well be surprised at the many strange customs of the Americans. Hearken, O magnet of my existence, to the habits I have observed among the learned youth of this great country; for you must know that in this country the youth are very wise, while the old men are they who seek to gain knowledge. I was much pleased and astonished last week when I attended what they call a recitation. The young men, having investigated some branch of learning, enter the room prepared and eager...
...while to my song thou'lt hearken...
...they walk the deck of the well-built trireme, and hearken to the music of the flute-playing Germani, and Fredricus is moved as to his heart with love, but Neptune, growing angry at Venus's having it all her own way, calls the winds. And they plough up the deep from its lowest bottom, and roll vast billows to the shores, and a steep mountain of water follows the well-built trireme, and Fredricus and Mary Ann are smitten with a terrible sensation. (In English, they are sea-sick...
...Hearken to my lyre...