Word: somberness
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...starting south today the University wishes the best of success. Win or lose, there will be no wild excess or somber gloom. The frenzy of intercollegiate rivalry is no more; in its place the new love of a good clean game has appeared...
...reason for the somber, unprofitable atmosphere of the lecture room lies in the fact that there is no "give and take" between the minds of professor and students. The former occupies an aloof, oracular position, delivering himself to a non-receptive audience of the ideas he has worked out alone or the facts he has collected. The latter listen without enthusiasm and dully set down in notes what they think they hear. In those cases where the lecturer, through his personality or power of popularizing, arouses unusual interest, a theatrical burst of applause betrays the peculiar attitude engendered...
...explains to the magistrate that she has acquired the money by selling her jackdaw. Michael Cooney discovers a whole brood of jackdaws, and brings these to Joseph Nestor. There then arises a scene with a pungency and vigorous working of humor that would affect the most somber man in Ireland."The Workhouse Ward...
...became very attached to his cousin Theodora Cowper, but her father would not consent to their marriage no matter how much the lovers urged. They parted never to meet again. She remained unmarried and the event had a lasting influence on Cowper perhaps tending to make him more somber. His father now died in 1756 and soon after his best friend Sir Russell drowned in the Thames, and Cowper felt that he was left alone in the world...
...infinitum. It will also be noticed that one set of rhymes will frequently answer for several heroines; for instance, Dora, Cora, Flora, Leonora, and others. In addition to these tables, long lists of adjectives are furnished, - usually of a dyspeptic, graveyard-like sort, such as despairful, deathly, chillying, somber-seeming, and the like...