Word: sought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rose in tears, and he sought...
...give a great deal of time, and wisely, to the languages, as a means of cultivating our analytical powers, and to mathematics and philosophy, to strengthen our reasoning faculties; but while so much of our attention is devoted to those pure sciences whose good results are to be sought for in the mind itself, and not in the subject-matter studied, we seem to lose our ability to retain those facts which we have once possessed, and which are of intrinsic importance...
...primary object of the regatta is to test the merits of the crews, no crew having the slightest advantage over another as regards position, etc.; and this being the case, the first point sought after is a proper rowing course, irrespective of any and all other considerations. Now, the course at Saratoga is undoubtedly all that could be desired, while that at New London is rendered very doubtful by the probabilities of rough water, so that as far as the advantages for rowing are concerned there can be no choice between the two places. Indeed, the former place is regarded...
...dreamland sought, and in due time
...those who, impious, sought to trample down...