Word: sad
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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YOUR winter clothes hang up in rows, in sad, defenceless fashion; while on these clothes voracious moths indulge their ruling passion. What wicked waste! Why not make haste-in manner most rococo-and ere they rot, sell out the lot to Barney Bennett-Poco? The order box for the elite, in Marks's shop-6 Holyoke street...
YOUR winter clothes hang up in rows, in sad, defenceless fashion; while on these clothes voracious moths indulge their ruling passion. What wicked waste! Why not make haste-in manner most rococo-and are they rot, sell out the lot to Barney Bennett-Poco? The order box for the elite, in Marks's shop-6 Holyoke street...
...longest of the tales and the most ambitious is "Little Anne" by C. S. Harper 3S. The characters in the story are very distinct and each one personally interesting. This writer understands the use of pathos, which figures largely in his second story, "Number Two Seventeen," the sad history of a convict and his too-long delayed pardon...
...journals, the news of the death of Marshall Newell possibly signified simply that a noted athlete of exceptionally fine character had died at the early age of 27 years, but to all those of us who knew Marshall Newell I fancy there were few, as we read the sad news at the breakfast table while outside the bright sun was shining on the happy Christmas Day, who did not feel our eyes moisten and a heavy strain on our heart-strings...
...Brown, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., publishers,- is, to say the least, interesting reading. It is a series of letters purporting to tell the story of a boy, who, isolated from the world during his youth, finds life a bitter disappointment. The story is well told, with a tender, though sad, picturing of nature and life. The author's conception of boy-life is at times a bit strained and unreal, but more often consistent and true to nature. The style is good throughout, and in places admirable. The author excels in word-painting, which gives to her descriptions a living...