Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five minutes in which to rest our tired tongue. The time sped rapidly, and we soon saw darkness creep around us. We took tea at Stone Hall, in a room with twenty girls governed by matrons. They have a pleasant little custom at Wellesley meals. All are obliged to stand until every one has arrived, when there is a sudden and systematic pulling out of chairs, and then all take their seats at the same time. A blessing is asked, and after that it is necessary to wait until all are helped before eating. After tea, we had the good...
...conditions under which the dream happened to me were these.-Last Friday I read a very dull book nearly all day,-"grinding" for the Mid-years. At length, in the evening, I could stand it no longer. My mind was tired, my memory overtaxed. With one last attempt to master my author's dullness, I yielded to him and retired from the contest exhausted. To invigorate myself I turned to De Quincey. I chanced to take up the volume on Murder, and tried the story of the murderer Johnson. The first few pages were interesting. The interest developed. Before...
...true place is as a leader, not as a follower. He sees that, although physical force may be on the other side, the government ought to be for the benefit of the people and not merely for the glory of the autocrat, and that it is his privilege to stand up for these principles, to fight for them, to suffer for them, like Cromwell or Sir John Eliot. He is the impersonation of the noble side of Puritanism; he lacks only its religious bigotry. He is the true hero of the poem even in Milton's mind, shocked...
...flooring of the cage in the gymnasium is nearly done. It will have trap room to allow men to stand on the earth while practicing pitching...
...receipts and expenditures, there is no doubt that they would acknowledge that the management has been all right, and that the money subscribed has been judiciously spent. Influenced by this report, they will probably subscribe much more than they now intend to give, and thus the debt will stand a better chance of being paid off this year. Let us hope that the managers of the crew will see that it is both for their interests and for the interests of the crew that such a report be given to the class...