Word: sounds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Waves on waves of their sound come rolling...
...Sound thus o'er Eastern seas...
...phrase proverbially used to denote a florid, pompous manner of writing"; "from this ardor," too, "springs a pronunciation unusually rapid," contracting "two short syllables into one," and pronouncing words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these...
...feels sure in his heart of hearts that he is level-headed,- to use an expressive bit of slang. If he makes any mistakes, it is always because he did not follow the dictates of his judgment. And every man considers his views of money matters to be as sound as sound can be. People who agree with him he considers as sound as himself. People who do not agree with him he calls fools. Now of course you do not want to be called a fool. And I think that I hardly need tell you that it is very...
...Green, '76), and consequently there was no race, the rules of the Association requiring two contestants in order that there shall be a race. The running high-jump was, therefore, called instead, and Messrs. E. C. Hall, '76, and H. G. Danforth, '77, appeared in answer to the sound of the bell. The cup was won by Mr. Hall, who jumped 4 ft. 10 in., which was three inches less than the jump of last fall...