Word: pious
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...When pious Fredricus ascended into the well-built trireme, his mind, revolving many things, determined that the yawning cavity beneath his belt was empty, and that it cried aloud for sustenance (in fact, Fredricus was grub-struck...
...nine boyish editors of the Dartmouth are in paroxysms of grief..... Why our editors do not flaunt their patronymics to the breeze is none of the Dartmouth's business." Harvard comes in for the following: "This [i. e. the restriction of books at the Library] is too bad; pious Harvard students, it will be seen, are prohibited a taste of the forbidden fruit. We notice that Carl still caters to the fastidious taste of the Harvard boys. By the way, have any of our readers ever entered Carl's domain? We have heard that it is a second-class lager...
...glorious May-flour pilgrims! How I delight in this matutinal devotion! How it strengtheneth me for y daily duties. We have twenty recitations a week. My hardest branches are Spelling and arithmetic. In y latter I find compound fractures especially difficult Most of y college felloes are goode and pious, but there are two whom y Evil One hath enthrald. They - poor wicket creatures! do frequently sneak to a forest in the neighbouring hamlet of Watertown and do play cards, y which offence is punishable with expulsion. I pray daily that the fetlock of sin may be loosed from them...
...spite of the best resolutions to the contrary, the Record, in the new spirit it has announced, forgetting all bygones, humbly states that "beneath the dandyish exterior of the Harvard man you will generally find the instincts and the breeding of a true gentleman." It utters, then, this pious wish: "Would that from beneath our own bluffness and carelessness of appearance there might never crop anything less of true, manly courtesy...
...built this convent with pious zest...