Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...information sent to the newspapers, no entry lists forwarded for publication. No games ever given in New York city received such scant preliminary notice. Possibly the committee were stupid ; perhaps they were restrained by that haughty disregard for common people which saturates so many undergraduates; maybe the coy contestants shrank from exposing their scantily-clothed limbs to the critical gaze of an indiscriminate assembly. But from whatever cause, the fact remains that the games were miserably advertised. Making a liberal allowance for complimentary and competitors' tickets, the assembly could not have exceeded 1,500. This 1,500 represented the personal...
...shrank back in terror, saying, "Who is this miserable man?" And the Freshman replied, "He is officially known as the Borsair, a term whose derivation the Philological Society have not yet determined. Some twenty years ago he headed an insurrection of Janitors, or Janissaries, - there is an historical doubt. They were temporarily successful; but they enacted such an oppressive system of legislation that a counter-revolution was started, and on its success the Janissaries were banished and the Borsair imprisoned for life...
...they screamed! I howled at them for very joy, and I felt the engine leap forward under me; they had cast off the train, and away we flew, the engine and I. Now the stations flew by, bright as live coals in a black, burnt desert, and the men shrank back as I flew away. There were lights ahead, a passenger train, hurrah! death is close after them; the train goes fast, but I fly like the wind. See, there is a station, they will have a rare show. But the engine staggers and stops, the wheels shoot fire from...