Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Goodwin has received a Greek newspaper, saying that it is a shame that barbarians as far off as in America should produce a Greek play, while modern Athens has no theatre in which the old classical Greek plays may be produced...
...WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK, Feb. 9. My Dear Oscar Wilde: I read with shame about the behavior of those ruffians at Rochester at your lecture there. When I see such things here in the civilized portion of my country, and read the coarse comments of the Phillistine press, I feel like thanking God that my home lies three thousand miles further on, and in what is called the wilderness. Should you get as far as Oregon in your travels, go to my father's. You will find rest there, and room - as much land as you can encompass...
...suffering public, that the avenging Nemesis would so soon come upon us. Ever since that fatal day, communications have flowed into our office until we had literally to wade through them to get to our editorial desk. And what a variety; enough to put the rats of Hamlin to shame; some, aggressive and pungent, others caustic and malicious, others again, whining and plaintive; one calls for the auditor's report, another for the bursar's; one asks for an expert, and another wants new directors. One writer tells us that, as we had had so much about Memorial, we need...
...Yaas," began Captain Peregrine again, with his inevitable introductory monosyllable, "I s'pose the Widder Hannam 'z havin' a pooty hard time on 't. An' there's Jake, her own husban's brother, one o' the richest men in taown. I vum 't is a shame...
...color, the shame of youth at act, his face