Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work. Beneath, we are regaled with a view taken from the Nile delta. wherein are portrayed several beautiful obelisks and tomos, with a little-Moses-in-the bulrushes,-and-Baalim-and-his-assattachment. Why the plain and tasteful cover of last year should have been discarded for this somewhat weird design, it is hard to conjecture. Opening the volume we find that the general plan of the work is much the same as in former years. The old societies, with but few exceptions, are represented in its pages. In typographical excellence the present volume falls somewhat below previous standards...
With suitable draperiesand the weird light, shed by the solitary candle at the end of the hall, we can imagine no scene more solemn and impressive. It would combine the classic beauty of one of Alma-Tadema's pictures with all the sombre melancholy of modern realism...
...batting was heavy. Phillips and LeMoyne, especially, batted Gunderson's delivery with the utmost ease. There was one serious fault in our playing, and that was the base running, which was altogether too rash. Something ought to be done about it. The umpiring was weird...
Harvard College loses a picturesque figure by the death of Professor Sophocles, who, in personal appearance and habits, was a veritable type of the antique. Gray and hirsute, his dark complexion and piercing eyes gave him a weird aspect, and he passed his days and nights in one corner of a college dormitory in lone communion with the spiders which he was wont to feed and cherish, and the tomes in which the lore of old Hellas was entombed, many of whose graces and beauties were visible to no eye within the academic shades as they were to his. Reserved...
Eighty-four's Triumph was a grand success. The procession was weird, the talking part of the programme good, and the drinking part entirely satisfactory. The poem was delivered by Mr. J. F. Jenkins, Jr., and the oration by Mr. J. H. Ward, Jr. The convivium afterwards was held in the American Institute Fair building, where hat kicking, crack walking and busy times generally were rife until the "wee sma' hours...