Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Perhaps, however, the "too" only crept in by accident, owing to a slip on the part of the Editors similar to that of the lady who was saved from drowning by "Providence and that other...
...uniforms of the crew are similar to those used in 1875, - trunks and sleeveless jerseys with crimson trimmings...
YALE, having suffered from similar attacks, extends, through the Lit., her sympathy to Harvard. Adverting to the Transcript's criticisms of certain Harvard students at Boston theatres, the Lit. says...
...shame the worst of college puns, nor does he, at the critical moment, lay an exposition of his feelings before the lady, marked by all the elaborateness and ingenuity of a law-argument. The remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar to that produced by a joke when told in ten times as many words as are necessary, and the fair maiden must have felt that all this flowery "gush" was far inferior to the "dumb eloquence" that accompanied it. But the modern hero has the good taste to perceive that a display...
...find something that might possibly happen in our own experience. However unpleasant it might be, there is certainly nothing unnatural in being poked as to the eye with a young lady's umbrella, and the species of "gush" indulged in by the hero and heroine we ourselves in a similar position would be glad to be guilty of. Then how much more real and lifelike are "Laura Doane" and "Maggie Grey" than those wooden beauties that James delights in! We get a glimpse of "fluffy hair," a "slight, graceful figure," and we don't care to know if the eyes...