Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...guilty parties is not known, but one thing is sure. Whatever steps the governing body might take against the thoughtless perpetrators of this boyish mischief would be sure to be unpopular among the great body of the students. Harsh measures, as has been well shown on various occasions, only stir up ill-feeling between the ruling and the ruled. At the same time, wanton destruction of property is in fact condemned by the public opinion of the majority of the undergraduates; and if certain notions of etiquette did not seal the lips of many, this public opinion would...
...Should stir the bush, when spring is near...
...catch the word "carriole," I conclude that it must be all right. He straps my valise to a seat at the rear of the vehicle, and perches himself upon it. I perceive that I shall have to drive myself. Get in and chirrup to the horse. He does not stir. The boy produces a whip, and, lashing the animal, says something that sounds like "shoe blacking," whereupon my Bellerophon breaks into an uncouth gallop (on afterthought, am not quite certain whether Bellerophon was a horse...
...know the very slightest stir...
...population of a college is of such a cosmopolitan and consequently migratory nature, that the beginning of a vacation causes scarcely a perceptible stir. The recitation-rooms become suddenly deserted, a few loads of trunks leave town, and a body of men, equal to a good-sized Western village, have departed with the stealth of an Arab encampment. An ubiquitous individual of the spirit-world could hardly be more interestingly employed than in following the men to their different homes and amusements, and observing what becomes of them, - we had almost said what they become; for a college man, marked...