Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amazement, beheld a twenty-pound cod, that I had just caught, erect upon its tail, glaring at me with intense rage and indignation. Abashed and disconcerted by the menacing and determined expression of the fish, I was still more startled to observe that its body was growing longer and larger, till it was towering above me. The features, too, were changing : the look of fury gradually subsided into one of melancholy; the tail kept up a tattoo on the bottom of the boat; the eyes became mere circles; the spots around the nose grew larger and more distinct, until they...
...community with horror and amazement. This was nothing less than the entire destruction of the street lamps of the city by a party of scoundrelly ruffians, who, there can be no doubt, are students of ??? College. President Socrates should be made to understand that the outraged community will no longer endure the criminal excesses of his students. We give the particulars of the shocking occurrence below...
...long time, I wished to confront Miss Ffrench. I no longer have that desire. If by any possibility I could come face to face with her, I should forego the pleasure; for I should certainly detect the mechanical apparatus of her existence. Detection would be death to her, and my conscience would then charge me with murder; for, though she is not life, Miss Ffrench is wonderfully life-like. - Vassar Miscellany...
...will be Mr. W. P. Phillips of the London Athletic Club, whose records are very fast for the short distances, i.e., 100 yards in 10 1-5 seconds, 120 yards in 12 seconds, 150 yards in 15 seconds, and 220 yards in 22 2-5 seconds; and for the longer distances Mr. W. C. George, Moseley Harriers, whose record for the mile run, 4 minutes and 23 1-5 seconds, is about 5 1-2 seconds faster than Myers's own record. Myers's American friends, however, are confident of his ability to hold his own against any athletes England...
...longer hard, though Bohny...