Word: wanton
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest," the &OEstrus has also appeared in new attire. It is now a good-looking paper of nine columns; a size which prevents the publication of those prize essays and orations which appear to be so plentiful at the University of California. We notice, too, a more important change in the tone of the items...
...apology to the Courant. Next time it appears to make a blunder, we shall understand that it is "roughing" the Record. We had no intentions of interfering in a family quarrel, - that is, a family joke. We hope the Courant's ungallant remarks on "wanton exhibitions of feminine levity and frivolity" (i. e. young ladies' talking in the Library) are also a joke but they sound rather too serious to be quite polite...
...Faculty have severely censured the four classes for countenancing a wanton desecration of the College Chapel. The introduction of a dog in full masquerade costume constituted the offence...
...zephyrs wanton with her hair...
Into her fingers, and with wanton sway...