Word: lest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fear not lest Existence closing your
...extracts from the article on Eastern colleges in the Oberlin Review quoted in our yesterday's issue; and surely every Harvard man will agree with us in this. Such sentiments are both admirable and truly generous, and far too seldom find utterance either East or West. We fear lest our Western friends, who are often too sensitive to the ignorant sneer of the Eastern undergraduate, will misconstrue our meaning. "In this brotherhood of colleges there is no place for jealousy...
...advance of his visit. After much difficulty, with the aid of other letters in his possession, he succeeded in dispossessing the minds of the brethren of their first impressions, and took his seat as a member. But they kept a bright lookout on him all the while, lest the craze should get the better...
...long ages, perchance yet containing the original ink. Demosthenes is said to have committed suicide by taking poison which he carried in the tip of his pen in readiness for an emergency. We hardly dare to suggest the superior facilities which a stylographic pen offers for such a purpose lest the blood of a throng of imitators may be on our own head...
...money in the total sufficiently large to induce the widow to part with it. While the civil war was in progress George Lafayette Washington lived eleven miles from Harper's Ferry, on the main road to Winchester, where the belligerents were continually ousting one another's forces. Lest any mishap should befall the medal, it was placed, with its original case of green sealskin lined with velvet, in a wrapping of cotton, deposited in a box, and buried in the dry cellar of the venerable mansion where Washington was wont to pass many pleasant holidays. The losses sustained...