Word: kneeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...until 1735 that corporeal punishment began to go into disuse. "When flogging was resorted to, the occasion was always one of great solemnity." The president and fellows, tutors and students assembled in the library; the sentence was read in their presence and the offender made to kneel before them. The president then offered a prayer after which the "prison-keeper at Cambridge" attended to the performance of flogging. The exercises were closed with prayer. A student thus chastised was "suspended from taking his degree," and required to sit alone and uncovered at meals as long as the president should...
...rises but to kneel, if perchance he rise...
...fire of precious and supreme transcendentally, or in cold and unappreciative apathy turn their backs upon the king of aesthetes and abhorrer of the common place. Bostonians surely appreciate the beautiful, but will they place in their shrines the chaste sun-flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform to the manners of him who yearns and is intense? Will they wander aimlessly through the yard with woe-begone expressions, clad in a gauze of glowing supremity...
...would bend to your hand, or kneel at your feet...