Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that I am a disciple of De Quincey. I lay no claim to originality; my sole ambition is to raise a warning voice in defence of that art which derives its dignity, nay, its very birth from my great master. Surely you will sympathize with me in this protest; you must agree with me that the fine art of murder was never more coarsely, more wantonly, more clumsily practised than now. Other times have been unfortunate, some in the conception, some in the execution, of murderous designs; it would seem to have been reserved for this age to be thoroughly...
...were rather a good thing to have in the house, we have hitherto been silent. We probably should have remained so had it not been for last Friday's dinner. This went a trifle too far, and so stirred up our bowels (of wrath?) that we must enter a protest. Friday was fish day, and fish we had. The recollection of it is as fresh now in our minds as the taste was strong in our mouths for the two or three days following. The fish was mackerel, and it was cooked in oil, - at least we suppose so from...
...Tripod is exceedingly angry with certain ladies who consider that "no girl with any self-respect would go through a grove with a gentleman after dark." If the young lady be half so pleasing as her literary style, we are ready to practically indicate our assent to her protest at any time that she may choose to designate...
...either a generous but reckless impulse to grant all that a courteous adversary asked for, or any childish dread of being called coward's if they did not do so. What Yale did was quietly to set her men to work, without a word of explanation, and, when a protest was received, to return a defiant reply and to publish insults in her chief paper...
...which conduct was highly immoral in a paper of such pretensions), or it could not; in which case, either it was stupid, or we admit we were to blame. But when this newspaper implies that we are not to be trusted, as being ignorant whereof we speak, we must protest. Was the Republican conscious that its own title to credence could not bear scrutiny? was it therefore the cunning of a thief set to catch a thief which suggested that our statements might not be founded on fact? Did it feel the injustice of charging the Harvard Freshmen with showing...