Word: laying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lay aside...
...again to the start, I took the time, and gave him the word. The way that horse shot into space! I felt the sulky lengthening out under me. The pressure of the air was such that my ears, which nature erected at perfectly true right-angles with my head, lay back upon it as flat as if naturally coalescent. I shrieked at the flying steed that perhaps he had better save himself a little. Vain, futile words! they never reached his ears till he went round the track and met them on the other side. He heeded not, nor heard...
Bore him across the land that lay between...
...made by our young friend for usefulness here is equally a splendid preparation for usefulness in that larger world to which he has gone. The literary and scholastic training that resulted in such superb scholarship was, after all, but the scaffold by the help of which he was to lay the walls of a brilliant and successful life. It had developed his mind, strengthened his intellect, given capacity and grasp and method and direction to his mental action. Does all this give a pledge for usefulness in this world only? Does it offer no prophecy of extended usefulness...
...history of the Union, for its founders, those who naturally contributed most to its success, went out with '81. There must be a hard struggle, or the society will be in danger of going under altogether. But there is enough good material left. And if each member will only lay aside false modesty, - identical in this case with indolence, - and determine to say something at least in every debate, the prosperity of the society this year will be all that could be desired...