Word: passion
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...been heard to state, red with passion, his hatred...
...passion now hisses, now mutters...
...stripling who thwarted my passion...
...heroine of this story and these two men, Freshman and Senior, meet while camping out in the Adirondacks. There is always, of course, more or less difficulty for the novelist to find a suitable time for his hero to declare his passion for his heroine. Hughes, however, did a good deed for a multitude of these lesser writers, when he had Tom Brown carry home Mary after she sprained her ankle. Since then it has been the misfortune of many fictitious belles to suffer the same accident, and Bessie Kendall was not exempted from the usual...
AMONG the most widely known and conspicuous traits in the character of the late lamented Prince of Erie, was his inordinate passion for making a display. He builds an opera-house, and runs it at a great loss, for the sole purpose of making his name prominent before the public as a patron-saint of the histrionic profession. He enrolls and magnificently equips a regiment of soldiers, aspiring to military glory, if not by deeds of valor on the battle-field, at least by gaudy uniform in time of peace, and by brandishing in front of the "Bloody Ninth...