Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...walked him around the course once, just to show him what he was expected to do, and then going around again to the start, I took the time, and gave him the word. The way that horse shot into space! I felt the sulky lengthening out under me. The pressure of the air was such that my ears, which nature erected at perfectly true right-angles with my head, lay back upon it as flat as if naturally coalescent. I shrieked at the flying steed that perhaps he had better save himself a little. Vain, futile words! they never reached...
...however, to remind our friends of the Echo that no college paper can achieve success without hard work on the part of all connected with it. To drop a miscellaneous assortment of items into a hopper can hardly be called editing a paper, in the strict sense of the word. It is, we think, the general opinion that the Echo has never been all that a Harvard daily should be, nor yet all it at one time gave promise of becoming. In a new enterprise deficiencies are to be excused; but the present volume of the Echo falls considerably below...
...many of our most important acts and thoughts, our friend the philosopher would say, are guided by chance! A sympathetic glance, when the lip is trembling, - a sigh, when the heart is full, - these are the causes of passionate affection; but an ill-timed word, an act of presuming tenderness too soon, will destroy the best-founded hopes...
...word my soul's anguish to still...
...bores you, you can go to sleep; if an engagement is unpleasant, you can be disagreeable to make the score even; and I'm sure you do not need any external charms to fascinate with, when your intrinsic qualities are what they are. Take my word for it; training don't pay. To put it concretely, "It ain't what it's cracked up to be." Why, look at me. I've trained! - rowed, base-balled, foot-balled; and what good's it done me? None! No sir, none! But I've grown a deuced sight wiser than I ever...