Word: lest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was danger lest the animated discussion which has been going on all winter might result in the dissolution of the association; but that danger has been happily avoided...
...said that great alarm is manifesed in certain quarters lest Ben Butler will carry his power as governor to the extent of insisting upon taxing Harvard College. Gov. Butler might not be made an LL. D. if he should...
...boat it is said : "There has been a dreadful mystery hanging over this boat. No one except members of the crew has been allowed to see it and all information in regard to it has been kept profoundly secret. Under-classmen have refrained from talking about it lest they might become disliked. A portion of the boat-house has been divided off from the rest by a partition and a very small door with a very large lock has been an eye-sore to inquisitive visitors at the boat-house. During the last week an unpleasant looking bulldog with...
...individual players, have grown to be pretty heavy, and in spite of their constant victories, there is no promise of better times in the future. It is ungenerous, to say the least, in the college to applaud their success, and immediately flee from too great an exhibition of zeal, lest it should be drawn into subscription. However the case may be, the team must not feel discouraged; they have already shown so much pluck in the face of adverse circumstances, that we hope to applaud their future victories...
...time that he shall not take it unless it fits, otherwise the worthy tailor can bulldoze him into taking it. Let the students be on their guard. We had lived until now in the vain hallucination that such a thing was always implied, but we have been wofully mistaken. Lest any of you may be compelled to take a suit from this mammoth establishment which would fit a person perhaps half your size, or twice your height, be sure to make this stipulation, that the suit shall be a fit. Of course this may be a slight trouble...