Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to call attention to the resolutions adopted at the meeting of the board of overseers yesterday. It is well known that this body of venerable men has ever been very jealous of its rights,- fearful lest the faculty might infringe upon what it terms its legitimate powers. At this meeting, a resolution was passed, declaring that there should be no change made in the requirements for admission to Harvard College without its consent. Here is a direct clash of authority. The fray now begins. The students can stand one side, and cheer their respective champions. But would...
...have an account of his love making there. "Next evening I was at the play with them: it was 'Othello.' I sat close behind her and at the most affecting scenes I pressed my had upon her waist: she was in tears and rather leaned to me. The jealous Moor described my very soul." The idea of Boswell torn by an Othello-like passion is certainly a striking one. The next day he popped the question, "after sqeezing and kissing her fine hand, while she looked at me with those beautiful black eyes," but, alas, he was refused. His disappointment...
...concludes that there was nothing inspired in his own poetry. I must confess to having felt the same mortification. There is my friend C., who has wonderful visions in his sleep; and when in a tone of conscious superiority, he tells me of them, I become so jealous as almost to grow to hate him. Why, a short time ago he dreamed of the end of the world; and the rocks were cleft, as he stood before the old University library at Cambridge. Suddenly the earth yawned, and there bustled out of the chasm, with a roar from a long...
...then in use on Jarvis Field and Homes Field should not prove sufficient, there is space for about 12 courts on the Agassiz Museum grounds, and also space for 10 courts on the Divinity School grounds. This latter ground, however, is controlled by the Divinity Association, who are very jealous of their own rights, and will probably retain control of their grounds...
...time, however, the good King became jealous of the regard which his beloved people had for this band, and determined to do them injury. He accordingly summoned to his royal presence on the hill, his Lord High Chamberlin and Keeper of the Garden Walks, and bade him issue a manifesto forbidding the nine to publish notices of their balls within his royal domains, and from this there was no appeal. Thus did the king deal with the nine...