Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more appropriate, no more convenient and more beautiful locality could be found than these grounds; and it would seem quite as true that these grounds and buildings would do more good in the hands of the Annex than in those of their present owners, that to the world the "sweet girl graduates" of the Annex would be of more worth than the few embryo apostles of Episcopacy from the Episcopal School. But these ideas are all exceedingly poetic, or at least imaginative, and proleptic. The Annex is poor and the corporation of the Episcopal School is not likely to consent...
...ideas of Plato. the atoms of Democrites, the substance of Spinosa, the monads of Leibnitz, and from the subjunctive forms of presentation of Kant, that philosophy has never neglected to compare the calculable operations of her hypothesis with the operations that fall under her observation.' Vassar and other "sweet girl graduates," remarks an exchange, may now hide their diminished heads...
...Reception, Art School and Loan Exhibition of Paint tings," as the invitation read. Perhaps I had to fish for my invitation; but then fishing is not always an unpleasant sport. I caught a good sized fish; and with it came up such snags and grasses as a couple of sweet-scented cards, and trailing along after them a note. Of course I threw none of this booty back into the water...
...fickle heart of Boswell could never remain true to anyone. He hears Miss Blair is really in love with him after all, and straightway his heart goes out to her. But only for a week. On receiving a letter from Ireland, he tells us, "all the charms of sweet Mary Anne revived," and he became true to his old love once more. To cut a long story short, I would say, as sympathetically as possible, that he was finally jilted by "sweet Mary Anne...
...Adam after his first strange nightmare. May we not say more ignorant, for Adam was not long troubled as to the interpretation of his dream? Did he not find at his side, when he awoke on the following morning, that bonniest flower that any morn had brought forth, sweet, blushing Eve? Our inquiry still is, "What is a dream?" And in the present state of our knowledge, we have to reply, "Why, a dream? Strange you should ask such a question! You have had dreams. A dream is,- why, is-as much as one should say, a dream...