Word: paled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pale moon arose, - when naught was seen
...Grows pale in the evening light, and dies...
SILENTLY the pale blue flames waved and danced over the surface of the coals, as, sitting late one wintry evening before the fire, I threw aside a volume of the "Demonology," and fell into a revery. On a sudden several taps at the door aroused me, and I remarked, "Come in." That the rapper came in was not to be wondered at (such a thing had happened before); but that he entered directly through the door without opening it certainly authorized some expression of astonishment. I raised my eyebrows and looked more closely at my visitor...
...successful contestant in a one-mile walk there - Green of Harvard - is thus described, in the moment of his hard-earned victory (N. Y. Times, July 16): 'He hurried down the lane to the string, which he reached, pale and exhausted, unable to stand still, and finally staggered into friendly arms outstretched to receive him.' Pitiful! very pitiful! Could any surer mode be invented of making a youth inevitably second-rate in mental, not to say moral, force, all the rest of his life? . . . . The new exercises for undergraduates serve to increase their natural centrifugal tendency to fly away from...
...moon relates what renders pale...