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Word: sinfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion I rather incline) vice versa. We had read, too, of the woful condition of college morals and college men, who commit the heinous sin of wearing ulsters and smoking cigarettes, and whose moral character, as might be expected from an exterior so intensely vulgar, is flashy in the extreme, being chiefly made up of "impure thoughts," on what subjects we are not informed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR BARDS. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

...VERY small publication, called the Archangel, displays a familiarity with very large subjects, as follows: "Next to pride, the sin of scandal is hated most by the Almighty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...hide it from earth and sin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

...second mile Vassar was still ahead, leading Ah Sin by five lengths; Harvard, however, had now gained the 497th place, our colored brethren, by strict attention to business, having succeeded in passing Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLORED RACE. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

...would not come in last, when an unlooked-for circumstance took place which eventually gave the victory to our College. When three fourths of a mile from the stake-boat, the Indian crew, spurting, overhauled the Chinamen, and through the carelessness of Jim-Jam, the bow-oar of Ah Sin, the two boats fouled; the boats which were closely following these two crews, in endeavoring to avoid a collision with them, fouled each other, and in an incredibly short space of time the course became completely blocked, over 490 boats being hopelessly entangled, - Vassar ahead, clear of the general confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLORED RACE. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

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