Word: wellnigh
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rapid increase which mining is undergoing, and we cannot fail to see how valuable and necessary a part of a practical education a thorough knowledge of Chemistry is destined in a few years to become. On this account it seems strange that Harvard, whose Chemistry department is wellnigh perfect, should neglect to provide for instruction in such an important branch as Practical Assaying. Perhaps the proximity of the Boston Institute of Technology has induced our Faculty to believe that any such course at Harvard was needless, but we are positive that there are many of us who would be glad...
...started for the door, but it was of no use. The fiend was in the way. "What was it the racquet?" Wellnigh stupefied, still I chanced to remember an old legend I had once heard. Perhaps the Lamia had reappeared in the form of Lampy. I caught on to the idea, and played the philosopher. I stared. Slowly but surely Lampy drooped. His legs elongated, his arms became wings, his nose became a beak. It was - it was the Ibis. Still he could talk. "Who did lemonade?" he squeaked. I took the only rope I had - my tennis...
...life of every man, a sword hung by a thread. To his keen, sharp, sensitive temperament an apparition truly tragic was anywhere possible. And the phantasm which appeared to Shelley shortly before his death came from reading a weird drama by Calderon, - a work so rare as to be wellnigh inaccessible...