Word: sullen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale's play was almost entirely negative, wasting time, interfering with the ball, every rusher seizing and holding a man, all with the one purpose of meeting our splendid system of offensive play. They played a dogged, sullen, grovelling game, not for the sake of the sport, but solely to win. The discipline was perfect. There was little offensive play...
...work being of a character for the most part suited to each student's taste was, according to the instructors, in great contrast to former years' work. A higher standard of excellence was reached that could be possible under the prescribed system. where half a class was sullen or indifferent to the subject under discussion. In the Greek department the work has been especially gratifying, while the Latin, although also an improvement upon former years, was not quite so satisfactory The men who have undertaken the difficult history and scientific courses have also done themselves and their class credit...
...potsherds of disease and violence. Hence the need of a Morgue. Here is brought the man who slipped while working on the quai, and fell in and was drowned. Hither comes the remnant of the drunken sot who reeled from the bridge at midnight and went down with a sullen plunge into the cold, dark waters which rush beneath the granite arches. This man was lured by his deadly enemy to a quiet place at a quiet hour and murdered. Can we not picture the sudden grapple and the terrible struggle, upon which the cold stars gazed down so unpityingly...
...temptations were strong, why should I up-braid myself? Yet how am I to account for this consciousness of sin, which is wholly different from the consciousness of folly or misfortune? I may have done myself all the harm imaginable through mere folly and stupidity; but however mortified or sullen I may be, I can never feel guilty or penitent. It is as hard to argue us out of the consciousness of guilt, as it is to argue us into the consciousness of real desert: for while virtue is too wise and humble to claim any merit...
...five minutes after ten last evening the sullen fire-cracker sounded its note of alarm in the yard. Windows were hastily opened and anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared...