Word: lest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Lest straightly I'd be deciding...
...fiction, the finest passages are seldom selected by the ordinary vandal; here, at least, he marks the best known parts, avoiding love passages lest he may seem sentimental...
Speak softly, Joy, lest Sorrow wake...
...time to time in the columns of the Spirit of the Times, and last week he asserted that "Harvard had not as yet answered the challenge from Cornell for a race, and must, to preserve her honorable reputation with the world, come out and say what she will do, lest every one think she is trying to gain time, as she did last year in the Freshman race. She must accept Cornell's challenge, or the world will say that she was intimidated by the jeers of Yale; she must do this to prove herself an independent institution, and show...
...neither very rich nor very poor. For a poor man with brains Harvard is, I believe, the cheapest college in the country, because of our large scholarship funds. For a poor student without brains it is not to be recommended. I not infrequently have heard apprehension expressed lest, in consequence of the number of our scholarships, good scholarship should come to be associated with poverty, lest the 'digs' should all be poor men. That has not yet happened in this college. Out of the first eighty men in the class which graduated to-day only thirty were applicants for scholarships...