Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...face. It was thrust stealthily forward out of the darkness into the light of the window,-and had a look of meanness and cruelty which I would put my eyes out rather than see again. The remembrance of that distorted likeness gives me, even now, a feeling of terror and shame...
...greatly appreciated by them. Moreover, many works of the old composers, especially Bach and Handel, are never heard nowadays, for the poor reason that they are of too slight account to bring before the modern audience, who, satiated with the music of the future, and "that thing of terror," a modern symphony or rather gymnastic exercise for the instruments in the orchestra, would scorn the simple writing of figures, etc. These simple melodies, many of them most beautiful, could be played by Professor Paine at recitals and he would thus afford an opportunity to hear music out of the common...
...Yorkers as an advertisement for Life, but we must think it to be in questionable taste appearing in the columns of Life itself. By appealing to sectional jealousy and popular prejudice in endeavoring to avoid all imputation of amateurishness Life seems to show a guilty self-consciousness and extreme terror of detection...
...Oxford days I lodged in the first story, counting the ground-floor as one. Just beneath me, a man lived who one evening begged me to take some wine with him, as the night before 'he had been forced to get drunk all alone.' I lived in terror lest this drunken fool might set his room on fire. If he had, for me, I knew, there was no escape. I must be content with pointing out the peculiar dangers from fire that thus threaten our colleges. I noticed them when I was myself an undergraduate, but my attention has been...
Laramie City is infested by incendiaries, and great terror prevails. Many of its best buildings have been destroyed...