Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor at last broke the silence. "I could sleep no more that night: I had a repelling horror of the thought, - a fear lest I might dream again. I sat there till the cold light of dawn broadened in the east, and the moon slowly whitened away to nothingness. Then I dressed myself, and, stepping out upon the upper balcony, watched the sunrise. As the colors warmed and deepened on the hills, and the broad ocean sparkled and shimmered, - so unlike that ghostly moon-swept sea of my dream, - this sense of oppression grew less vehement, as all such feelings...
...Carlin was sitting near, talking angrily, I judged, though I could not hear his voice for the wind. And then the memory of that dream came over me; I divined what was to come. I think I must have been crazy with terror, - I am sure the captain thought...
...with which the controversy is conducted. So small is, in fact, his bump of pugnaciousness, that he would fain let the matter rest, but for the honor the president of the Christian Brethren did him in answering his remarks in person, and under his own signature. That this gentleman thought it necessary to come to the front, in spite of the dauntless onslaught of "V. I. Z.," in the Echo, shows the true value of "V. I. Z.'s" criticism. Had it been worth any thing at all, Mr. Maude would not have gone to the trouble of putting...
...Harvard professors. This was by no means a novelty: long before the Annex was dreamed of, Harvard professors had given lessons at private schools in Boston. This was all well enough; professors of course had a right to dispose of their leisure in giving additional instruction, and nothing was thought of the matter. So it was when the Annex was established. At first all was a depth of mystery, and save for an occasional meeting at the notebook counter, or sundry jests in the College journals, no one would have believed that such a thing as the Annex existed...
...banish from me ev'ry thought of care...