Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...round us the air is heavy, silent and still as death...
...nobler sort, - possible only in a generous disposition, - which despises not men, but only what is mean and false in men. His character is consistent throughout, and a great though peculiar one. While he is as noble a man as is to be met with once in an age, still it is perhaps more pleasant to have that meeting take place in a book than in real life. He is one of those persons who are always misjudged, and judged only by the poorer side of their characters. Should we meet him tomorrow, we should set him down...
...Still can free thee from thy doom...
...waive the point. The Courant advises its men to go to Springfield prepared to row, and if they are ruled out, though it does not see how they can be, to "grin and bear it." "If, however, their principle of selection is declared right, and Amherst and Harvard still refuse to row, as no other college has entered a crew, the Yale Freshman will stand a pretty good chance of coming in ahead." Yes, neighbor Courant, and the boating world would never hear the last of the glorious victory achieved, against the most frightful odds, by the stout Yale Freshman...
Years have rolled by, and Skiapous still sighs for his virgin benefactress. But why should young hearts, full of gladness and rejoicing, be oppressed by the forebodings that crowd my fevered brain? Will it not be enough, when all is over, for me to tell you "Skiapous is no more...