Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gather before the glass, and apply the blacking and rouge. Our helmets and lances are supplied, and we are ready for the drill. Coming down the mountain-side is particularly trying; the narrow path cracks beneath our strides, while we hear from our critics a medley of "Slow step!" "Far apart!" "Never do!" "Close up!" The orchestra begins, and we await our cue; but one, a body-guardsman, anxious for a solo, steps out from the wings, sees his mistake, and retires in confusion. Another one is told to "pick up that hat," and, too proud to stoop, pulls...
...proves to write a theme or a forensic, of much less length and poorer quality, and we have no reason to think that the case would be different with regard to elocution, especially when we remember what a wretched farce recitation in that study used to be. A step in the right direction was taken when an instructor in elocution was appointed for the Senior Class, who devotes a portion of his time to each man who desires it. Such help in one's endeavors for self-improvement is invaluable, and if a similar instructor in English composition were...
...through them looks dubious; but no matter, - all the better, in fact. The contrast of the beauties I am about to disclose to you will be all the more striking. At any rate, you can emulate Mark Tapley for once, and get some credit for being jolly. Let us step in here a moment. Ah! yes, this a picture store; but there are no pictures in America, you know. What is this? - sunshine, green trees, running brooks, cattle, farmhouses! Why, I thought I was in Boston! So you were, my dear fellow; but now you are in the middle...
...departed for our quiet homes and the coast was clear, than a part of the Juniors in Architecture, M. I. T. (so says the Spectrum) come to Cambridge to view the architectural splendors which beautify our Yard. They noticed, in University, "the lower flights of stairs, the steps of the second run of which are built into the wall about two feet, and project therefrom about five, without any support at the outer end." The Spectrum doubtless makes this remark in all kindness, but we confess to a self-reproachful twinge. Have we not mounted that "run" thousands of times...
...devil, who was capable of performing his master's bidding with alacrity and thoroughness. But Hildebrand becomes incomparably great. The conception of his character startles us by its novelty. Napoleon believed himself to be the creature of destiny, and claimed only the merit of struggling heroically to take each step in a winding path; but Hildebrand saw the end from the beginning, and provided the means of attaining it with the completeness of an engineer who has to tunnel a mountain. Moreover, a convenient key is furnished us to what would else be inexplicable in the history of half...