Word: upright
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...watched the ever-roughening sea several minutes in silence. The pier was trembling beneath my feet, and I found it hard to stand upright against the fresh, strong wind. I had never seen such sworls of spray before, nor such a foreboding sky, - a long oblique strip of blackness, like a pall, with ragged edges dipping to the very sea. Then I turned and slowly walked up the path to the little brown house, where the tall elms were swaying madly to and fro. A bright face welcomed me from the window. It was the little granddaughter...
...Society of Christian Brethren is one of the few College societies that have a distinctly religious end in view. The members meet. once a week to sing hymns, to pray, to encourage one another to be good men. and to further, individually and collectively, upright living and noble deeds. It thus fills a place in College that could not be filled as well by any other society, with, perhaps, one exception. It is evident, however, that what makes the society fill its place so well is not the purely religious part of its work. There would hardly be found within...
...response. In dumb despair I hurried through unfamiliar paths, hoping to regain the clearing. In vain! Fate had ordained otherwise. Weary, helpless, I abandoned myself to my tears, and they did not desert me. I wept until I remembered that crying injured the complexion, and then I sat upright and looked about me. The sun was sinking in the west; my heart was sinking in my breast. (There! I never knew I was a poet before...
...immediately silenced by a handful of doughnut chips from Geoffrey. I was making tracks for the door about this time, but I heard a dreadful crash as I reached it. The table was upside down, with its legs stretched appealingly into the air, and only the Greek standing upright...