Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Junior crew, on the whole, still pull in the best form. Their stroke, however, has several faults. It hangs somewhat, and is not carried through; it is sluggish on the shoot, and the catch is not well marked. The dip is also too deep, time not well marked, and feather rather uneven. Bow, two, six, and eight clip, and three and five bucket. Bow, two, four, six, and seven do not reach out far enough, and three and five over-reach. No change has been made in the men since they were last published. The average weight...
...Athenaeum tells us of a newly formed association called the "Howlers," having for its object "the production and consideration of diaphragmic undulations, together with that of the harmonious combination of infernal detonations. Its meetings are to be held nocturnally, when all more sluggish mortals are wrapt in slumber." A correspondent complains that the time allotted to the class prayer-meetings is taken up by remarks from ambitious young speakers, instead of by prayers. He tells us of one case where the prayer-meeting actually broke up after only two prayers! and of another "in which the speaker made a long...
...weakest spot in his position. A boating meeting in the University may not be attended; but visit the true scenes of activity at the boat-house, the gymnasium, and Jarvis, and, as if to lay the ghost that troubles our author, the College rubs its sleepy eyes, stirs its sluggish blood, and sends eleven men to kick all Canada into the ocean. If enthusiasm is to be judged by the projects started, the Athletic Association and the new club system will both serve to point a significant moral, and the class and various small societies born in the last four...
...stood beside a sluggish stream...
What kind of exercise can supply that need so well as the old and well-tried art of boxing? What is so good to teach the eye attention and he hand agility, to push back the drooping shoulder and quicken the sluggish blood; to put the whole body into a pliant, healthy condition...