Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Here lies the trouble with those tales of blighted love. Few or none of us at college have ever loved passionately; nor have many of us lost what we value far more than life. Our cry of bitterterness and woe is hollow, It comes from smiling lips. So such stories at best are but feeble imitations of true work...
Irving. Twenty or thirty pages of any volume of History; Rip Van Winkl and Sleepy Hollow (from the Sketch Book), or Dolph Heliger (from Bracebridge Hall), and Tales of Money Diggers (from Tales of a Traveller...
...society houses or lodges are tasteful and convenient in design, rich in interior furnishings, forming essentially a home for the society members. Here the leisure hours of every day are passed; the piano and organ stand invitingly open; the convenient sleepy-hollow lures one to recline at ease while he reads a novel from the well-filled book-case close at hand. Here the evenings are whiled away in pleasant chat on college matters or in a beguiling game of whist; and here at various times the students, a choice number, with a few invited guests, devote the evening...
...Corsair and his crew - Birbanto resolves (in more senses than one) to strike - Great Sale of wives (beating Smithfield hollow) - Medora, "The Greek Slave" - Startling Situation - Rescue of Lovely Woman in Distress - Elopement of Conrad and Medora...
Another attempt upon the life of the beech tree in the hollow between Weld and Matthews was made during the recess. This makes the third unsuccessful trial to destroy that unoffending object...