Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gloves, you are ready at any time for five minutes' lively sport, - your own room the arena. The chairs and table are pushed back and you begin. As you meet your opponent's shoulder-hit and cross-counter by a ready guard, or escape them by a quick toss of the head, or by a light step backwards, you smile in conscious power, and feel a keen pleasure in thinking how the blows would sting did you not so skilfully shun them. To tap your adversary lightly on the forehead, or playfully swing your right hand against his ribs...
...safe as a good college during the critical passage from boyhood to manhood. The security of the college commonwealth is largely due to its exuberant activity. Its public opinion, though easily led astray, is still high in the main. Its scholarly tastes and habits, its eager friendships and quick hatreds, its keen debates, its frank discussions of character, and of deep political and religious questions, - all are safeguards against sloth, vulgarity, and depravity. Its society, and not less its solitudes, are full of teaching. Shams, conceit, and fictitious distinctions get no mercy. There is nothing but ridicule for bombast...
...prospect of food somewhat better than at the old Commons, owing to the increase in the numbers of the club, and to the skill and experience of a professional steward. In respect of all these the club is certainly far ahead of the old railroad-depot. The waiters are quick and intelligent, and as each man has but one table of twelve students to serve, they do their work very satisfactorily; the food is cooked much better than at the Thayer, and is served infinitely better; and the members of the club have the privilege, to quote the words...
...report of rich plunder, from the country within a radius of fifty miles. The price for transportation to the lake immediately dropped from five dollars to fifty cents. We learn on good authority that, should Saratoga be fixed upon for the next regatta, a long-contemplated plan for quick and cheap carriage to the lake will be carried into effect. This would remove every objection to Saratoga but one, that of the delay caused by rough water; and this, it is held by men familiar with the lake, could be obviated by setting the race in the morning...
Looking on at the quick - coming tide...