Word: seem
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Seem crystal grottos in a moment riven...
...fairy realms seem almost in our touch...
...that the height of ambition for a man that stood no chance for the University would not have been reached when he had succeeded in getting on his class crew; while a lasting advantage would be gained if it increased the number of rowing men, - as it would seem natural that it should, - and provided more and better material from which to select the crews...
...same unaccountable singularity showed itself on the 18th of December last. In direct opposition to what a sense of propriety would seem to dictate, the College exercises, with all the attendant noise and bustle, were kept up to within an hour of the funeral services of one of the greatest savants...
...THERE seems to be among many college graduates and students a disposition, fostered, no doubt, by the character of our most popular studies, to consider as rather unworthy our notice anything so simple and rudimental as the faculty of memory. We give a great deal of time, and wisely, to the languages, as a means of cultivating our analytical powers, and to mathematics and philosophy, to strengthen our reasoning faculties; but while so much of our attention is devoted to those pure sciences whose good results are to be sought for in the mind itself, and not in the subject...