Word: seem
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...charge of ten cents will be livied on men using the new clay courts. Again, on the grass courts the charges will be fifteen cents for each player, if engaged in a four-handed game, and twenty cents if engaged in a two-handed game. These charges will not seem large in view of our new advantages, and the fact of the necessity of repaying the money loaned by the corporation...
...intense cold of last week cracked the Dartmouth Chapel bell, but strange to say, it did not seem to effect...
Saint Saens ingenious Danse Macabre, though not finely played, so took the audience as to call forth a demand for its repetition, which Mr. Gericke unwisely yielded to. If the rule against repeats is to be broken, it would seem as if a piece of more real musical merit might furnish the occasion. The Melusine overture was taken at altogether too rapid a pace, and even then the violins showed a tendency to break away from the conductor's time: it was otherwise well done, the delicate runs in particular being evenly, and carefully brought out. The symphony...
...There seems to be a peculiar connection 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...
...were printed. They serve to throw considerable light on his peculiar character, for in them he expresses most unreservedly his ideas on people, on women, on love, on himself-indeed, on everything on which he had ideas. Boswell is one of those people we never think of blaming. He seems as incapable of wrong-doing as a child, and even while we feel a certain and even while we feel a certain sense of annoyance with him, at times, still we cannot condemn him. There is something charming in his folly. But the most striking feature of these letters...