Word: power
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...England life, and the stories are the more interesting for the degree to which they appeal to one's own experience. In point of literary workmanship, the tales vary to some extent. The second is one of really weird pathos, and so placed as to gain in power by contrast. No. 4 is very ingeniously contrived and very amusing. The last is "A Bit of Shore-Life," and is refreshingly "salt." It consists of a series of rapid descriptions of shore-life, as vivid as one of Norton's "Marines" strung upon a simple thread of narrative...
When a person employs any one, he is apt to look into his previous record; the Bursar evidently considers this an entirely superfluous process, in employing a man who is to have a good deal of power over a large building full of students...
...motion was then made that the ex officio members of the Executive Committee, i.e. the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, and Captain of the Crew, elect four other members, one from each class, the whole to form a committee of nine, which should have power over all the business of the Boat Club, - including its policy, - except the question of challenges...
Sufficient, steadfast power, guide, and light...
...arrived a little late, but entered with a light heart, only to find my fair hopes an exploded dream, for there was the object of my self-sacrifice directing the full force of her charms - Ye Gods! what a power! - upon Mr. Lowbrow Fairface. Duty chuckled audibly and Conscience taunted me. But I did n't "chew my dear heart," following the example of Homeric heroes. I rushed up stairs, a little dazed, but registering a mighty oath that rather than be balked by a coquette's deceits, I would dance with the Furies and find beauty in them...