Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certainly arrived at the conclusion that our English boys at "Trinity" and "Jesus," in the fenlands of the old country, would, at least in physical appearance, lose nothing alongside those of Harvard College. We did not at Harvard look out for "Jesus" giants, nor even for some of those thin-flanked "long-stops," which, at a 'Varsity show - should such a show be possible - might be trotted out. We took the young Americans, man for man, and our verdict was that which we have described. But, nevertheless, the latter, in sheer, intellectual force, may probably give the "Jesus" giants seventy...
...easily attained in rackets of larger heads. The new styles have reached the other extreme, being of a larger size than has appeared before, and strong wrists will be necessary to successfully play with these, for if they are made of light weight the material will have to be thin, and consequently cannot resist with ease a volley or swift serve. To be of use they ought to weigh at least 141/2 oz., which is heavier than we are accustomed to. However, to a man who can wield easily a heavy racket, these will be of great service, for they...
...What was his name, John?" "I have forgott'n, sorr." "Was it Darwin?" "Ah! yes, Dorwhin. Well, this man went to Californy and dug in the ground twenty feet - twenty feet, sorr! and he came upon a skull of a mon that looked jist like a monkey's and thin again jist like a mon's. And so he thought that mon must have come from monkeys. But, belikely the sea came in wan toime and covered up this mon, and that's why they found him there; but he wasn't a monkey...
Then I felt sure Mr. Butterfield, senior, had sandy hair and a sandy beard, and was long and thin, what his neighbors called "rather a spare man;" I had also decided that he had large hands and feet, and wore spectacles and storeclothes; that he was bigotedly honest and never touched a drop of anything...
...giving some account of the victims "impaled like flies" who are now often remembered solely on this account. The concluding books are less personal than the first and the work ends with a very fine apostrophe. The coarse grossness of the Dunciad illustrates well the brutal spirit and thin polish of the century. After alluding to the pseudo-classical spirit that pervaded continental and English literature after the renaissance, Mr. Perry mentioned some of the questions that agitated the creeds of the day and led up to the state of mind in which Pope composed his "Essay...