Word: pray
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...worthy of being recorded in a neatly gotten-up and handsomely illustrated volume." "The performance of the Antigone?" Shades of boobies and dullards! Has our friend opened the book, or has he merely balanced it in his capacious hand and said, "The book is well worth the public reading?" Pray heavens, sir critic, they may read it to better advantage than thee. But tell me, was there not something asinine in that last roar? Did not the patronizing lion show his ears? I hesitate - perhaps there is slight ground for such rude talk - but our trans-Atlantic cousin has blundered...
...have come across the following passage of a letter written by Daniel Webster to his son Fletcher, who was about to be graduated at Harvard, in 1833: "I have seldom felt so much concern about anything of the kind as I do upon your success upon that occasion. I pray you spare no pains. Do your best, and you will do well enough. I earnestly remind you of the necessity of acting with great caution in regard to all festivities. You remember what I said to you on that head, and I pray you forget no part of it." - [Scholastic...
...forget their uses and let us pray for the continuation of the species, knowing as we do that they...
...Harvard musicians be allowed to publish their work in it. 2. Pay the goodies better wages and get better work. 3. Let us have better ventilation (excellent but "trite"). 4. Do not let interest in evening readings die out. (Further suggestion: Make evening readings more interesting.) 5. We pray for a public room for practising sparring. (All the fighting editors of the college are sadly out of training...
...know," I replied; "but pray why did not your father send him to some American college - where English is more generally spoken - where he might meet more young men from the United States, and not quite so many from abroad? Of course I know that it is gratifying to the curiosity to see labelled specimens from the Nile and Cork and the Feejee Islands. But then one would hardly care to chum with them, you know...