Word: pale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student to so much wisdom. Nobody seems to know where to look for the books, and the poor library boy doesn't wear the hale and hearty look of our little red-haired friend. Sent out after a book at 12 on Monday, he arrives panting, fagged out, pale and haggard at 11.45 on Tuesday...
...hard that he disabled him, he would be declared "fit only for the society of roughs and 'muckers' "? Either the gentleman who was so badly handled was also ignorant of sparring, or else in an unfit condition to appear; in the former case he would also come under the pale of criticism, in the latter, to what purpose are contestants examined before entering contests? If he knew nothing about sparring, he has himself to blame for the blows he received; if he was unwell, Dr. Sargent should never have permitted him to spar. I am sorry the Advocate should have...
...Cambridge at the present date ranks among the first in the world. The fertile, low-lying plain, surrounded and traversed by the Cam, sets off well the dark mass of buildings with the famous stone bridge, from which the name Cambridge is derived. As early as the twelfth century, pale faced students, who burned their lamps far into the night, began to flock to the place and were compelled at first to board out among the few miserable dwellings of the town. One by one the colleges were founded until, in Milton's time, the supremacy of Oxford University...
...against all odds, a cowardly dread of all hurts? Do we not see that that is the case in the growing popularity of the safe but effeminate lawn tennis, and the substitution of artificial gymnastics for the healthier field sports of our transatlantic ancestors? The long line of puny, pale-faced, pimply youth to be seen to day in our midst must be protected; they must be put back in the nursery where big boys cannot bruise their sickly frames. How refreshing it would be to see a foot ball game conducted on the principle of the modern nurses...
Only twenty-four ! I should have thought her at least forty. Pale and sallow, lanky and awkward, with straight hair cut short and put back from a high forehead on which there were already many wrinkles, she looked a plain, unhealthy woman, her shoulders had the student's stoop, and her movements were constrained and full of gaucherie. She was careless, almost slovenly in her dress; but I mentally excused all this in her feeling sure that her concersation would be brilliant enough to make amends for all her other shortcomings. But what was my surprise when I found that...