Search Details

Word: pale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Somebody wonders why seniors are always so worried and pale and care-worn during the spring term. We would not hazard our reputation on the answer, but the Patsies and Susies of the Sem might give some reliable information on this point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERSONALS. | 6/5/1883 | See Source »

...Clipper's account of the recent inter-collegiate sports states that among the colors displayed by the lady spectators "the pale blue and white of Columbia and the bright crimson of Harvard were largely in the ascendant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/1/1883 | See Source »

...death's pale flag is not advanced there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORE CLASS DINNER. | 4/18/1883 | See Source »

...Marlborough-street Court, says of him: "He was not exacting, and I had an easy time of it. I cannot remember doing anything more than laying out his breakfast and tea table, and occasionally doing an errand. I recall him as a good-looking, rather delicate youth with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy, and well dressed - not given much to athletic exercises, but occasionally sculling, playing cricket and hockey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLADSTONE'S SCHOOL DAYS. | 4/16/1883 | See Source »

...artist, in which he says that the whole of their class window will probably be in place in Memorial Hall before commencement day. The sketch of the Virgil is finished and the Homer is well under way. The figures are to stand out in rich color from a very pale background. Mr. LaFarge has been in bad health for the last year, and work on the window has been repeatedly delayed by sickness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1883 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next