Word: strucke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comings-in - but yet - there was something, a premonition of danger, I might call it, that weighed heavily upon my spirits. I wandered about the room uneasily; I tried to get interested in "Bleak House;" I returned to my pipe for consolation. I was miserably restless. The clock struck twelve, - hollow, resounding strokes, every one of which increased my nervous expectation. I felt that I must do something; I took up my hat and coat, and was about to start off myself in search of Steve, when I heard a brisk, firm step on the stair, and the missing...
...their utmost, the one to win, the other to retain, prestige. At all events, the coming contests can hardly fail to be of interest. The Courant, in speaking of the letter by a Yale graduate in a recent CRIMSON, declares that "When a good solid blow is to be struck, there is nothing for the purpose like an intellect trained at Yale." That has always been our opinion, and we are glad to find it thus boldly stated. . . . The current number of the Princetonian is one of the best we have yet seen; but the Acta has not yet been...
...discretion and by the general authority of the Faculty, as has been done heretofore in many cases not covered by positive regulation. In all cases, specific penalties and regulations, suggesting a line up to which failure of duty or breach of discipline may be safely carried, have been struck out, in order to offer no temptation for a kind of calculation of results which is believed to place the student in an essentially wrong attitude of mind towards his regular duties." And, again...
...boats were now but a few hundred yards apart. Suddenly Bertha rose to her feet, with a scornful gesture, laughing nervously; and then that devil raised his arm and struck her. She reeled backward, fell helplessly over the side; and then the whirling waters closed above her head...
...game, knowing that we had a pretty sure thing of it; and they had particularly asked me to get odds of at least five to one, as somebody had told them that Harvard would probably back her team; but the very first Harvard man I struck had the impudence to laugh in my face, and ask me "how I had the cheek to ask for odds when our team had beaten Columbia thirteen goals and six touch-downs to nothing, while Harvard had only beaten her three goals and two touch-downs." Of course I could not talk with...