Word: meek
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty is also said to be divided against itself. Vague rumors reaches the students of an aweinspiring dignitary seated in his 'old carved oaken chair of state.' It is vaguely intimated that at times he seems to consider his high-backed chair a throne, and the necks of his meek contemporaries adjustable footstools. It is hinted that the executive whip is cracked with a facility that could only have been acquired by a prolonged apprenticeship at a German court. If such is the condition of things in the mysterious precincts of the faculty room it may be that the apprentice...
About forty very meek and very proper freshmen attended the performance at the Boston Museum last evening, occupying three front rows of the orchestra chairs. With a fearful and blushing consciousness of their own wickedness, about forty very meek and very proper freshmen from time to time during the performance furtively glanced around, and beheld the eyes of some fifteen or twenty upper class men narrowly watching them. Not a sound was heard, however, but silently and stealthily, at the close of the performance, these freshmen glided from the scene of their terrible orgy, and emerged under the frosty starlight...
...sure. One of them is a grass-widow (cause, spiritual incompatibility), and the other is a bona fide widow (cause, a few years' bad cookery with digestive powers in favor of the lady now before you). They are talking about Mrs. De Sorosis, and as I am a meek little person myself they do not mind me but continue the following conversation as though I was not present...
WHEN I was a Freshman, young and meek...
...bowed them in meek supplication...