Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what is so pitiable as a loving heart, spurned, despised, by the object of its love! What so cruel as the youth, favored by fate, who will crush beneath his feet this precious gift of love! Will not the despised one's tears rouse against him an avenging spirit...
...moment we were informed by the medium that the spirit of the only Conners was present with a bull pup, and wished to borrow money enough to buy a little coal. Being always willing to assist the worthy poor, I passed up a counterfeit quarter which I had received at Sever's, and which I had been unable to get anybody, even an editor of one of the College papers, to take...
...asked Conners how he liked his present quarters, and learned that they were "too dommed hot" to suit him. When his spirit departed the medium seemed very much exhausted, but this did n't surprise me much, for I remembered that Conners had often "made me tired" before...
Thinking it said, "Give us the rest," and supposing that some spirit was touched by that beautiful melody, and wished to hear the remainder, I rose and took up the song where Bob had stopped. I was much surprised, not to say disgusted, when the whole circle rose to their feet, - not to applaud; oh, no! but gently, yet firmly, to request me to stop. Rather than be obliged to pulverize the crowd, I complied with the request...
...element of religious directness and force. Under such men as Drs. Hale and Brooks the new regime cannot fail to succeed. It is well, however, to add here a word of caution. The hour of service gives no excuse for any undue haste: it is therefore fitting that a spirit of reverence pervade the hearers. Undue noise in entering the chapel, conversation of any kind in the seats, the unnecessary coughing which ofttimes makes itself conspicuous - all these are breaches of good taste and good breeding which are designed to create an ill impression in the mind of a beholder...