Word: kept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dress worn at night should be loose and light, and to make such a garment comfortable, the bed-room must not be kept at too low a temperature...
...their issue of yesterday the editors of the Monthly departed from the strict letter of their rule that the leading article in each number should be written by some Harvard alumnus; but they kept to the spirit by getting Assistant Professor Cohn to contribute a short essay on Jules Grevy. Although Mr. Cohn uses English uncommonly well for a foreigner, yet his work has not the same finish which we would demand in the case of a native. Nevertheless, in spite of his disadvantages he has succeeded in giving a very readable account of President Grevy. The career of this...
...guards. Soon he expected to take his degree, and then to wander again as a physician and propagandist among the peasants of Russia. Another remarkable man was a Jew, from Southern Russia. He had been arrested for publishing a paper, and thrown into prison without trial. He was kept for six months with thirty other men, in a room dirty beyond description...
...granted to us. There were a number of vacant seats last time, - vacant, not for want of occupants, but because men persistently refused to "move up." These seats were not situated near the aisles and consequently remained unoccupied. Thus through the inconsiderate selfishness of a few, many men were kept standing all the evening, when they might have had seats...
...love Routine. We want to see a Tadema or a Millais, but always expect to have it pointed out to us, and the result of this vicious practice has crept into every branch of art. The public exercises an irresistable coercian over the artist. The true artist is kept in misery by this tyrany. He is compelled to perpetuate that peculiarity by which he was first brought into notoriety despite his tastes. Poverty is no friend to art. Hard times have exercised a profound influence on English and Continental art. All must be "pretty" and "cheerful." Riches are necessary...