Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three, unconscious how "the gods made mock at us," sat late into the starlight night, and no one could know that our hearts were not at peace. I can hear the light laughter of more than one happy group of people on that piazza yet; so great a part does commonplace play in this life of ours...
...eyes troubled me a great deal; the eyes of the natives were set exactly parallel, so that the peculiarities of parallel lines were overcome. I have no time to speak of the city, - of the grand public buildings, with all their sides parallel; of the reservoirs in the lowest part of the town, with the water carefully walled in to keep it from running up and creating a flood, - but I will pass on to the Museum of the University...
...when I came to talk of the separation about to come, I thought that she grew very sober; I thought I almost saw tears in her eyes. Never mind what I saw. I drew her trembling form closer to mine; and then I knew that we two must not part for ever...
...purpose. We have repeatedly asserted that we hold ourselves responsible only for what appears in our editorial column. Had the gentlemen of the Advocate but known this, their criticism of our conduct would have been unnecessary, as the article in question appeared without any editorial comment on our part. From the beginning of the controversy with Yale, the Crimson has been strongly in favor of a race with that college, and has thought any other course except that of New London impossible. We trust that this answer will sufficiently explain our own position, and will show, at the same time...
...Chinese pick-pocket, or the Royal Asiatic Society has to do with the subject in hand. Nor should our valued cotemporary complain of "athletic tabular views and ornithological ghost-stories," so long as they furnish a text for its widely famed humorous pieces. And when, as a parting thrust, it playfully insinuates that the Crimson is beyond its depth in speaking of matters Shaksperian, it is guilty of a degree of arrogant vanity which we confess we did not anticipate. There is, indeed, little in the editorial article in question that needs refutation : the New Shakspere Society will not suffer...