Word: palely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...death by the sculptor, Thomas Woolner. After passing through the hands of Carlyle and Charles Eliot Norton, it finally found a permanent resting-place in the library in 1881. If any one has any doubt as to Cromwell's unsympathetic treatment of Charles I., one look at this cold, pale face will decide him. A more cheerful ornament lately added is a finely executed pen and ink sketch of the study of Darwin...
...former schoolmate of Gladstone at Eton says: "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...
...these prizes offer a special inducement to the men who most need the training they call for, and hence admirably solve the problem. They are not merely open as are the prizes at the athletic games, to the few strong men of the college, but to everybody - the pale, consumptive-looking senior and the diminutive fresh. - [Univ...
...Yale News gives vent to its exultation over the result in a gorgeous supplement, after the style of a theatre poster, printed in pale blue, containing the names of the Yale team and her records for the year...
...Pale as the sea beneath the noonday...