Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...between our dreams and our own past experiences. One can tell a great deal about the character of a person if he knows the nature of his dreams. Dreams seem in some way to be measures of men's mental capacities. They are the sincerest things about us. They reveal the idiosyncrasies of our natures, whether we like it or no. If we will not stop during our waking hours for a season of introspection and of self-interrogation, we nevertheless must submit to having all this done for us in our sleep. Yet, it must be confessed, dreams greatly...
...were in the vicinity of a great university. We entered an old-fashioned hedge-surrounded house and found ourselves in an apparently well-stocked library. A large open fire-place yawned at its opposite end. A few dull embers flickered dimly there, sending out barely light enough to reveal the features of the room, and making the corners and recesses all the more fit abodes for the uncanny beings that haunt such places in the dead of night. Hundreds of volumes were ranged up the sides of the walls. Ancient tapestries from Venice and Florence draped gracefully in the corners...
...seen from a glance at the prize list, on which appear clocks, statuary, silk umbrellas, easy chairs, and books without number. This method of rewarding athletic excellence may, at the first glance, seem rather peculiar, but, we are sure, a closer inspection of the system will reveal some points of excellence which are not to be found in the present method of prize-giving in vogue at Harvard...
...dispensed with for the present; but with the advent of cold weather and good skating, we were told, the signs of activity would be numerous and frequent. The cold weather has come and with it the long expected skating, but a careful and diligent search has failed to reveal to us any signs that such a society as the Hockey Club has an existence among us. Can it be that the approach of the midyears causes the enthusiasm of the officers to ooze away before the greater enthusiasm which a blue book can provoke? Can it be that this youthful...
...South Wales offers to reveal the name of the writer of plays and sonnets written by the author of Hamlet. This is as funny as the Boston merchant who after reading Shakespere said that he did not think "there were twenty men in Boston who could have written the plays...