Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...task for us to attempt. We point out the true course for them to take, we persuade them to adopt this course,-and here our duty to the University ends. After that, we wash our hands on the whole body, and leave them to their fate. Perhaps, however, our restless contemporary the Advocate, which is so clear in understanding articles of a facetious nature, may be willing at this position of affairs to extend its all powerful arm to their assistance. Our bi-weekly contemporary has had so much to say about consistency within the last few weeks, that this...
Rumors of important changes in our athletic system have been flying around the college of late, and a restless and uneasy feeling as to what these changes may be has been aroused among the undergraduates. We do not know definitely whether any changes will be made, although we have good reason to believe that the Committee are in favor of making some alterations; but in view of the present state of opinion, we deem it our duty to speak a few words to Committee and students alike...
...Cambridge, a town of sixty thousand inhabitants, is, as Ford wrote of Spain, "a gastronomic erebus," and boasts nothing better in the way of a restaurant than what would be deemed quite fourth-rate in New York. Moreover, the poor food induces, in the words of Cambridge's poet, "restless, unsatisfied longing," which is too apt to be satisfied at the numerous drug stores, at which mysterious and exhilarating medicines are obtained at the wink of the initiated...
...restless impulse sent her to the door. Looking out, she saw a boy and a girl tripping merrily along, chanting gayly a sentence which she did not understand. She was in the mood to be amused; she therefore beckoned to the children, who came toward her rather bashfully...
...weary days, the passionate, restless nights...