Word: whosing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...pardoned for presuming to hint that in this very instance it has obtained recognition by the "almost scientific." But this is not all. On such a colossal scale was it that "it fused facts back and down into the central force of a personal will, from and upon whose volition universes with their contents flowed, not floated, into true cosmical harmony." We learn, further on, that "in vital matters, man and woman are equal. In functional relation to the cosmical order, each is other's superior." This appalling fact should be borne in mind, and we doubt not that...
...accuse me of disregarding the rites of hospitality, if I indulge in a few reflections on the characteristics of some of my guests. I mean those whose comings and goings are regulated by the convenient location of my room, the extent of my library, especially that part relating to translations, and the condition of my tobacco...
...need not specify - all know whom I mean - that friendly young man whose visits are as regular as the flow and ebb of the sea; that congenial soul who, on finding our oak sported, evinces his superior knowledge of college customs by treating us to the soul-soothing sound of the devil's tattoo beaten upon our door in a manner truly vigorous, giving vent at the same time to expressions of mistrust as to our being out, and whose incredulous phiz we finally see peering at us through the ventilator. In what a pleasant frame of mind...
...warm beds to grace their lords' festivities, his eye sparkled and blazed with a youthful fire, and he seemed a boy again. With what glee did he tell of Harvard's one fire-engine, first at all fires (when perfectly convenient), drawn by a crowd of yelling students, and whose cold streams, when fires were less frequent and the student mind needed gentle relaxation, were often turned upon the windows of obnoxious tutors...
...talked proudly of the Harvard Washington Corps and the Navy, whose flags are long since food for moths, and whose very names are meaningless to us. For aught I know, he might have been an officer in one of these, and led his troop down from their armory in the top of Hollis, or presided at the clam-chowder served up on the annual cruise of the other. He might have been (though no one would have guessed it from his bent body and trembling hands as he sat there in the dying firelight) leader of the trembling crowd...