Word: poorly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...declaration of the existence of a society whose doors are closed against all who do not prove their right to admission. It is evidence that America feels the need of an aristocracy, and that she can afford to support one; and any country which cannot is too poor a relation to be admitted on equal terms into the great family of nations...
...prevailing tone of the institution - are sons of farmers, - frugal, industrious fellows, who are working their own way through college, and who, at the time of the regatta, are swinging the scythe in the hayfield, or handling the compass and chain on the railroad. Besides, though they are poor, they are proud, and would regard it as beneath the dignity of a free-born Vermonter to expose their muscle in public, like gladiators in the amphitheatre, for Mrs. Morrissey and other high-bred dames to bet on. If you will get up a contest in some honest and useful work...
...those poor shipwrecked fools, who weakly...
...tinker up their poor old ship...
...lost and won, will give an observing man much food for reflection on the proportion maintained between the three factors,-the social status of the lovers, the strength of their affection, and the publicity of its manifestation; and at Niagara! -truly the air is so love-laden that a poor bachelor mortal can hardly breathe...