Word: treading
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There was no rest for me after this. Gentlemen in squeaky boots patrolled the room; other gentlemen came in with parties of ladies, and all talked in hoarse whispers which echoed through the hall; men with arms full of books crossed and recrossed the room with heavy tread; proctors, accompanied by sisters and cousins, helped to make things hideous; the nymphs of the Library flitted about the alcoves overhead, and cast furtive glances down upon the busy bookworms. My head began to swim; the page grew blurred...
Ulysses wanders by the crisping wave, And longs to tread once more his native...
...seek thee in the path that I should tread...
...most part, the college press is content to tread in the same paths year after year; and so it is with real pleasure that we observe the enterprise of the editors of the Dartmouth in securing for their paper regular and special correspondents at Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley Colleges. These letters, we are promised, will be "sprightly, interesting, but honest," and the writers will be the most brilliant that these institutions afford. O happy and much-to-be-envied Dartmouth...
...office, and in this case I may say, if reports speak truly, the office had to knock several times at the door before it was bidden to come in, - a gentleman whose selection for a post abroad, where he will have to tread in the footsteps of Washington Irving, has done honor to Harvard University, honor to him, and honor to the administration which made it, and will do honor to the country. I mean Professor Lowell of Harvard University. Him I call upon to respond to the toast: 'The highest use of learning is one of the most potent...