Word: shouted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many of the colleges of this country. The News thus sermonizes : "There is a growing tendency among us to look too lightly upon extreme in drinking. The amount of evil which such a negative position can work in a short time is incalculable. It may not be well to shout loud and weak temperance projects, - that is far from the best way of bringing about the desired result. But if we would take a more positive stand, if we would all cease to regard with a smile the rehearsal of a man's loss of self respect, if the time...
Once only - and no sooner had the shout...
Once only when the shout of contest loud...
...this is an alarming development. You feel like a horse in a tread-mill. A shout comes from the shore, "Keep going and you're all right." But you are painfully conscious that you can't keep going forever; that you were never designed for perpetual rotation. You are convinced that this particular log has some old-time grudge against you which it is bound to pay off now with your destruction. There is another of less truculent aspect within three feet of you. You determine to trust to its mercies. But to jump to it would be folly...
...been overcome by my eloquence, fell forward into his arms, and was accidentally pierced by this weapon. Adelinda, who, it appears, had always cherished a secret passion for Lardy, rushing to sustain him, was herself transfixed by the steel protruding from his back. At this, Carolinda, with a shout of joy, threw herself into my arms, and, assuming the famous posture of Mary Anderson, exclaimed, "My husband...