Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clearer light of the days that followed. But I could not wholly forget the terrible vision. Stephen May-more had vanished utterly from human knowledge, and I - I had seen the face of his murderer. That was the fact which persistently followed me, the conviction I could not contradict. Often I awoke in the middle of the night, shivering and ghost-haunted, from some second vision of death and fate. What was the mystery? Where was Stephen Maymore? Always the old question; no answer, no appeal from this...
...complained of not feeling very well for several days, and on the evening in question he had started out, as he said, for a short walk, "to ??? me up a little." I had many times noted how nervous he had become. He started at any sudden sound, and often I had overheard him talking to himself. He had also complained of bad dreams; he certainly had been feverishly restless during these past few nights, and he had succeeded in infecting me with the same trouble. I knew that he was completely worn out, and I begged him to go home...
...into their columns. If such as these appear in print, what stuff must the editorial waste-baskets contain! Undergraduate poets seem to have a poor command of language, and this gives rise to repetitions, and gives an air of awkwardness and carelessness to many of their compositions; we often find words put in merely for rhymes or to fill out the stanza, and a general lack of careful revision is painfully evident. I have noticed that the last stanza, - often the last line of the last stanza, - contains the worst faults in the piece, as though the "divine afflatus...
Undergraduate poetry may be divided into the sentimental and the witty. The sentimental is often well expressed, but is generally trashy; the witty is more likely to be good of its kind. It usually contains too many college allusions to interest any but students, yet it adds to the jollity of student life, and taking the form of satire often lodges a keen shaft where it will do the most good...
...often stirred in me a certain dread...