Word: sweeten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cuba, shaped like a Dill pickle, sweetens the world with its sugar. But Cuba's politics do not sweeten its foreign relations. Aside from the small matter of the Cuban lottery, which occasioned the temporary return of our Ambassador, General Crowder, to consult with the State Department (TIME, Aug. 13, Aug. 27) there is the Tarafa Railroad Bill...
...doctrine of energy and of work, and though it presents the ideal, it is eminently practical; the Christian is called, not to evolve new explanations of truth, but to live up to the truth as he has it, not to create a new order of society, but to sweeten and purify that in which he has been placed...
...made the Greeks themselves Greek. The advice of Cato, cum bonis ambula, holds as good of books as of men. If the mind, like the dyer's hand, becomes insensibly subdued to what it works in, so also may it steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against darker days. It is the books which heighten and clarify the character, whose seciety I would bid you seek. I think they tend to keep us pure. They disinfect the imagination; they fill...
...bygone times, guests, royal and otherwise, jaunty young corps students with their bright-colored caps throng impetuously into the hall. As is usual in a bier kommers, there is some preliminary attempt at literary exercises, either to ease the consciences of the revellers, or, what is more probable, to sweeten by contrast the subsequent carousal. There is some brief speech-making and bowing and toasting and responding by the Grand Duke, and introducing formality. But little by little the deck is cleared for action, and the men settle down to the serious business of the night. Now by the beard...
...friends of the college against Mr. Chadbourne for this action. The cause for this sudden outburst of malice is unknown, but the general belief here is that he has been "most terribly left" in something, and that having tasted a generous supply of sour grapes, he is trying to sweeten the flavor by hurling slanders against us. His administration here was one of tyranny, justice at his hand being unknown, and the "pack-up-and-leave" system of punishment for crimes real and supposed, carried to perfection. He was universally disliked, and his resignation was hailed with unconcealed delight...