Word: viciously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of college expenses has been much debated lately. At our commencement dinner a year ago our chairman insisted that the ideal of the University should be plain living and high thinking. And certainly there is apt to be something vulgar, as well as vicious, in the man of books who turns away from winning intellectual wealth and indulges in tawdry extravagance. Yet every friend of Harvard is obliged to acknowledge with shame that the loose spender has a lodging in our yard...
...home run. For the visitors this inning, as well as the next three, proved to be unfruitful, only two men reaching bases in the entire four innings. In the second the crimson showed a net earnings amounting to two runs, accruing from a single by Boyden, and a vicious four-bagger to left field by Choate. Harvard now seemed contented with things, and very courteously refrained from scoring during the next four innings, though hits were scattered here and there, like raisins...
...this matter as the system which has come into use. The trouble in the case undoubtedly lies in a lack of that kind of activity which is so requisite in matters of finance. The business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account of its want of susceptibility to new methods. If a thorough overhauling of the manner in which the accounts are kept, and the monies expended should take place, new life and better financiering would undoubtedly follow...
...nevertheless essentially noble and high. We know of no instance in fiction where a love between man and woman, which could not exist and be given expression to within the bounds of honor, has been depicted with the quiet strength and delicacy, and with the entire absence of anything vicious or demoralizing, that characterizes the history of Margaret and Harold. Without sentimentality, one pities the pair, and looks on them leading their separate, sorrowful lives as creatures of an inevitable fate - too strong to be rolled in the mire, and only strengthened and chastened by their past. The story...
...third round was opened in a rattling style. Each man seemed bent on forcing the fighting, and each got in good blows. The punishment told on both, and the blows became weaker. Ashe planted a vicious right on Austin's chin which almost staggered him. Gathering his strength, Austin landed his right on Ashe's nose and drew blood. The round was very close, with the honor perhaps slightly in Ashe's favor...