Word: wails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Club won the toss. Having massed the basses in the centre, and stationed the tenors on the wings, the leader gave the signal for readiness. In the meantime the 'cellos had performed a beautiful fantasia, which elicited great enthusiasm from the lookers-on, but gradually subsided to a low wail, as if preparatory to defeat. The signal was given; the instruments lead off on the "Marseillaise," while from the other end of the field thundered the chorus of "Yankee Doodle." A terrific crash followed, as the opposing ranks met in the struggle; screams of grief, shouts of triumph, filled...
Speaking only out from the depths of our youth and inexperience we would suggest to our venerable but dyspeptic contemporary, the Yale Lit., that vituperation and scurrility would better become a journal of less dignity and fewer pretensions than itself. If the Lit. must wail, we presume it is all very proper that it should wail with perfect impunity; but we entreat our dear sister to show a more chivalric spirit, and not to vent its spite upon the weak and unprotected alone...
...dimples bending tenderly over me; but no Derby and dimples were there; instead, I heard a sweet, melodious voice floating down the hall: "If he goes at it in this way he's likely to get pretty well posted on bicycles." That was too much. With one feeble wail I passed into oblivion. . . . .I remained in oblivion three days, returning on Sunday; very opportunely, as the reduction of fares on the U. R. R. took effect on that day. I now sit in my window and watch the professors, and occasionally a student, go to recitation. Don't imagine that...
...wail, and murmured low, "My brother...
...gradually becoming estranged through trifling, thoughtless error. Then, indeed, It forces open its cold lips to shriek the needed warning. Alas! how vain such efforts are! Have you not, on some winter night, when you were rushing along through the driving snow, been startled by a low, mournful wail? Have you not felt inclined to stop and see what was the cause of it? Well might it be, indeed, could you but understand its meaning, for it is the wail of the letter-box, its agonizing moan of helplessness and impotence. But It is doomed to everlasting dumbness. Its secrets...