Word: sway
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Parted. For Death has in his hateful sway...
Into her fingers, and with wanton sway...
...this institution tends toward the cultivation of manly and independent qualities; and we behold with pride, and make much of the fact, that Yale men are free from what we term the foppery and affectation of the Harvard undergraduate." With this exordium, which shows that habit will exercise its sway in spite of the best resolutions to the contrary, the Record, in the new spirit it has announced, forgetting all bygones, humbly states that "beneath the dandyish exterior of the Harvard man you will generally find the instincts and the breeding of a true gentleman." It utters, then, this pious...
...fierceness of his ruling! O the terror of his sway...
...wind of pleasure sought an easier sway...