Word: strung
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Nothing is more painful to a delicately-strung nature-and the nature of all Harvard men are delicately strung-than to hear a woman confess that she has been in the wrong. If this statement is perfectly true, every reader of yesterday's CRIMSON must have suffered as he read the communication from Wellesley which we reprinted from University. Nevertheless it is gratifying to us all, and especially to the Pierian Sodality, to learn that the omissions of that memorable evening were not commissions, that it was rather ill-management than ill will that led to the discomforts...
...Ernest Renshaw wishes to acknowledge the receipt of a racquet strung with india rubber strings. Owing to the absence of any name he has been unable to express his thanks to the donor. He also regrets he is not able to form any opinion of the value of the invention, as only two strings remained in the racquet when he received it. - Pastime...
...McClellan away from Washington, his base of supplies. Accordingly Lee crossed the upper Potomac and concentrated at Frederick City. McClellan then marched slowly toward him. Meanwhile Lee sent several detachments to capture a garrison of about 11,000 men at Harper's Ferry; but kept most of his men strung along the Blue Ridge...
...like that of Pleto in ancient times, or speculative systems like these of Spinoza, Leibnity, and Hegel in modern times. The circumstance that Emerson is an American may seem to contradict this, but then Emerson, while he opens glimpses of truth, is not a philosopher; his thoughts are like strung fearls, without system and without connection. On the other hand, the Americans believe that there are things to be known, to be prized and secured, and will never look approvingly on an agnesticism which declares that knowledge is unattainable. The American philosophy will therefore be a realism, opposed to idalism...
...think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males are "men," and all females "cows," with the usual intensive adjectives strung before...