Word: wildly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heave. During the fifth minute, Balch took in rope, and by a succession of powerful heaves brought the ribbon one and a half inches over to his side, where it remained until time was called. The victorious team was carried off on the shoulders of their classmates, who were wild with excitement, and well they might be, as this is the first time that a freshman tug-of-war team has been victorious since the new method of pulling on cleats has been adopted...
...contests have now assumed an importance, second only to the class races. It is but rarely that any class enthusiasm is shown equal to that which is the invariable accompaniment. of a victorious "tug." It will be many a year before those who witnessed it, will forget the wild excitement which prevailed when the '83 men, then dignified seniors, bore their victorious team from the hall on their shoulders...
...anything, we shall probably hear of it from the officers of the Morgue. A dark, heavily veiled figure is pacing the Pont Neuf slowly and irresolutely. A human soul has been delivered over to the worm that dieth not. A sweet face is wan and pinched with agony; two wild eyes gaze down into the cold, whirling, gurgling water; there is a cry of despair, a frantic leap,-and a lost soul has rushed unsummoned to meet a just God. Next day the body is found floating, and brought to the Morgue...
WILLIAMS.- Messrs. Wild, Vermilye, Tuck, Carse, Van Duzee, Parsons, Pressey, Ranney, Aitken and Phillips...
...crop of extraordinary translations from respectable old classical authors, as gleaned from our exchanges, says the Collegian, is unusually prolific this year. Some of them are startling in their originality and ingenuity, others are completely bewildering in the wild luxuriance of imagination which they betoken on the part of the translator. For instance, Virgil is made to say in "Impositi rogis juvenes ante ora parentum," "And the boys were imposed upon by the rogues in the very teeth of their parents." Another from the same source, "Hunc Polydorum auri," "A hunk of gold belonging to Polydorus." Horace fares little better...