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Graduates are personally wiser, if not more patriotic, than those who still linger at the knees of learning. Surely they perceived before we did the need which must...
...eighteen hours under the dead body of his mother in Kishineff, until the mob drew off; the girl who wrote of the two men who wished to marry her, pinning their photographs to the paper, and asked me which to choose--those are examples out of literally hundreds that linger in my conscious or subconscious memory. And on the other hand, what a delightful lass was she who defined aesthetic as "something to kill cats with," and illustrated her definition by the sentence "We gave the cat an aesthetic." --New Republic...
...French sergeant flashed a light and pointed it o show us just enough room to squeeze through between the caisson and the ditch while his men went steadily on without haste yet with efficient "team work" and no conversation, clearing the road. And this was no place to linger, as the next one was always due to arrive...
...been said that at our athletic rival subscription to the college magazines is regarded as one of the most important evidences of "college spirit." And so it is. To allow our college literary papers to linger from year to year in such a condition that their best friends advise them to unite that their "two weaknesses may form one strength" is disgraceful...
...period of suspense that touches the most disinterested heart, the mother swoons, and the son, the less patriotic, goes forth from his home into the night. The play works in and out from itself, upon itself, suggesting sequence, heightening suspense, the fulfilling anticipations in a scene that must linger long in the memory of every observer...