Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were disturbing the peace in that dark corner, were surprised by a Professor. One, seeing escape impossible, posted himself on the spot where the old pump had been, and, holding out his arm, imitated its appearance so well that the Professor passed him by in hot pursuit of the others...
...FAIR presumption seems to exist that one will find in a college man a firm opponent of cant; if, at least, we mean by that term "the repetition of a creed after it has become a phrase by the cooling of that white-hot conviction which once made it both the light and warmth of the soul," as Mr. Lowell defines it. But however this may be in regard to religion and such indifferent matters, one cannot be so sure of a college man's hatred of cant when he comes face to face with something in regard to which...
INJUN PROBABILITIES: "Mebbe snow next week; mebbe rain; mebbe some damn hot." - Argus...
...dollars, it is to be expected that the Corporation will see to it that no falling-off shall occur in the present arrangements. The food is wholesome, well cooked, and abundant, but not of great variety. Meat is furnished twice a day, cold meat being given at breakfast and hot at dinner; hot rolls and good coffee are also given at breakfast...
...turn around and entreat the boy to stop the animal. Like an idiot that he is, he only repeats, "Shoe blacking," and persists in whipping the galloping brute. My eye-glasses shake off, and become a total wreck in the bottom of the gig. The sun is very hot and the road is dusty. (I anathematize Jenkins for advising me to come to Norway.) The more I pull on the reins the faster the horse goes. Despair! After two hours of misery we come to a town; the horse stops of his own accord, and I descend to terra firma...