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Word: sighing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...power to the offensive which is bound to come this spring,--it means that the German pressure on all fronts will be greater than it has been since 1914. Our answer must be immediate; we must do more than balance the Kaiser's hordes. The less we think and sigh about poor Russia, the sooner will be brought about the quick action so essential to Allied victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RUSSIAN PEACE | 2/12/1918 | See Source »

...sentimental channel with ardent wooing on board a steamer bound for Bermuda. Of course when we are in December sanity we would not stand for such stuff, but right now when the very essence of June is within us, we can go to Ye Wilbur and laugh heartily or sigh and pray to some god to put us on that steamer. The ankle in question is at all times lovely, and it is the most prominent part of the rather confused plot, for by the treatment of a sprain suffered by this same ankle, a poor but attractive doctor secures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 6/6/1917 | See Source »

...blockade each other. That is none of our business. But when blockade methods are so outrageous that they make shudder all that is decent in us, when these methods kill off a couple of hundred of our citizens among a couple of thousands of neutrals, are we merely to sigh and say it's too bad? What are we to do? But the climax comes with the announcement that such methods are not only to be continued, but to be made worse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Necessity, Nct Choice. | 2/19/1917 | See Source »

...Training Table Room at $7.50 per week; and members of the Union may start tables there Table d'hote and a la carte meals will be served in the large Dining Room as usual. The first meals served will be lunch today at 12 o'clock. Men who sigh on must do so by the week and given two day's of intention to discontinue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION SERVES MEALS TODAY | 9/20/1913 | See Source »

...crow-bars and pickaxes; for their murderous intent upon Gore Hall was manifest. Those who have sat and read and writhed in its swivel seats, or waited while its alleged contents were sought form the cellar of Appleton or the garret of Conant, will pause to breathe the respectful sigh due its venerable three quarters of a century of existence. And thus passes Gothic Gore, former abode of ecumenic erudition and draughty discomfort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OBITUARY. | 1/14/1913 | See Source »

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