Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...almost irrepressible inclination to throw himself in the midst of the play, just as some people of peculiar nervous constitutions can never see an expense train dashing by a platform without an insane desire to jump at it. His hair has no touch of gray about it, his step is elastic, he still sticks to his cricket or rowing club, he is in every way a healthy, active, full-spirited man, and yet when he looks on at a foot-ball match as a mere passive spectator, the idea crossed his mind that he is old before his time...
...Isis are in their first and freshest foliage. The ivy and the roses are climbing walls of edifices and gardens and are now in full leaf and flower. The lawns and green-swards are as trim as art and labor can keep them, and as soft to the foot-step as velvet, and as the habit of a thousand years could make them. Today the examinations are all over, and the festivities of commemoration have begun. The men have for the most part doffed "the cap and gown," and are abroad in the streets and grounds of the colleges...
...that to the best of our knowledge the nine trained faithfully, except that they were allowed to smoke; that the captain, laboring as he did under great personal disadvantages and though he did not have the sympathy of certain "know-alls" who croaked and condemned the nine at every step because the captain was a sophomore, made every effort to bring a good team into the field; that the members were only absent when sick or injured ; that, though they were naturally dispirited by their misfortunes, the nine showed by their splendid fielding record that they played for all they...
...This is the sort of 'kelp and brick dust' used to polish the cogs of their mental machinery ! And when, for a good decade of human life, and those its most invaluable years, a boy has stumbled on this dreadful mill-round, without progressing a single step, and is plucked at his matriculation for Latin prose, we flatter ourselves, forsooth, that we have been giving him the best means for learning Latin quotations, for improving taste (or what passes for such) for acquiring the niceties of Greek and Latin scholarship ! We resent the nickname of the 'Chinese of Europe...
...paying a fee of one dollar." This enables persons to join the society from the first of December till the beginning of the new fiscal year on the payment of two dollars,-one dollar in December and one dollar in February. The directors were further induced to take this step by the necessity of increasing the receipts of the society during the next few months. The expenses of the society during the past two months have been unusually large in consequence of moving to the new quarters and fitting them up, and in consequence of the necessary employment...