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Word: stillness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Still Ruprecht sat at the selfsame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE OF MONTEFIASCONE.* | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...present time the question of reform is in order. Everybody feels that there is something to be done; modifications to be adopted, antiquities to be suppressed, new methods to be introduced. Still, there is fear and hesitation. In France, you know, we know not how to make reforms; we make revolutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...still this seemed the burden of the song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SIRENS. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

...each occupant of a room were to inscribe his name, with some appropriate legend, on a tablet of some kind, when leaving it. These tablets might be kept under glass, on some convenient wall of the room, and, at a future time, might be very interesting. At Oxford is still shown, with pride, the autograph of Addison, rudely carved on a wall; and we hope that no one is so Nation-tinged in mind as to say that we are to produce no more eminent men at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

...Before ending with a prayer that what is really an amusement may not become a profession, he says: "The University ideal should be as high as possible. To hold up success in examination as the natural end of three years' exertion, is a very questionable doctrine; but it is still worse when athletic competition comes to stand upon the same level of popular applause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

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