Word: wildly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cleveland the audience rose and cheered. In New York the verdict was the universal topic of conversation, and people congratulated each other wherever the news was heard. In Washington the result was universally approved and the jury highly commended. In fact, the news spread over the country like wild-fire, and was received on all sides with satisfaction...
...that a man? No! that is not a man, that is an aesthete. What has he in his hand? He has a lily in his hand. Will the lily die? Yes, the lily will. Poor lily! Why does he look so wild at the horse-car? Of course he looks wild at the horse-car, for he is Oscar Wilde. - [News Primer...
...gymnasium. The one great thing needed here to stimulate the enthusiasm in athletics, is a new campus. The one we have is very small and uneven, and the proximity of a lake is a source of constant hinderance and great annoyance during a ball game, as a wild throw to first base generally results in the ball being lost in the water...
Oscar having crossed the ocean can now tell us what the Wild (e) waves have been saying. - [News...
Enter Tom Hathaway at other side of screen, with whip, and dressed as from riding. Soliloq. - "Well, here 's a pretty go! The idea of my being sent on such a wild goose chase! - As if I knew anything about maids! They might as well have told me to hire a howling dervish. Just as I was going off for a day's sport, too! I think mother might have hit on some other time to get sick. Some people are confoundedly inconsiderate, any way. [Notices screen.] Holloa! they cage the animals, do they? [Peeks through blind.] By Jove, there...