Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...generally conceded that of all torments remorse is the worst. Lady Macbeth in vain tried to wash from her hands the blood stains, and Bill Sykes could not escape the eyes of Nancy. They gazed up in to his from the clear waters, they looked down from the blue sky, and as he threw himself in a frenzy on the ground and buried his face in his hands, they peered out of the depths of the earth. But the Christian need not fear remorse; his thoughts are not for the past but for the future. He knows that his sins...
...popularity was nevertheless disagreeable to many people and in the seventeenth century Sir Thomas Mildman writes: "In likewise foote ball is too utterly abjected of all noble men, wherein is nothing but beastlie furie and extreme violence, whereof procedeth hurte and consequently rancour and malice." The Puritans were the worst enemies of the game; one Stubbes in his "Anatomie of Abuses in the Realme of England" mentions "foote ball playing and other devilishe pastimes" which were played on Sunday. Among his words on foot ball are these: "For dooth not everyone lye in waight for his adversarie seeking to overthrowe...
...tackled and followed the ball well. Jackson in the second half made some good runs but showed his great fault of slowing up when with a burst of the speed of which he is capable he would have got a clear field. He also showed one of the worst faults which a half-back can show, looking back when he has clear ground ahead. He did some good dodging, however, and showed his possibilities. McNear played a fair game, doing some good blacking-off, and Whitman showed himself, as usual, steady and a good ground-gainer. Wrenn was hardly...
...team is light and not yet shaken together but quarter-back Wrenn kept the play fast and hard and in this the secret of the good score lay. The blocking off was fair, the worst tendency being for the blocker to get in the hole himself instead of making it wider...
...himself, that he will mind his own business if others will mind theirs. The whole system of Christian ethics depends on the idea that the body should be kept pure, as God made it. The men who succeed in life are those who live according to this rule. The worst of it is that the affectionate, poetical, generous men of genius are apt to be those who cannot resist temptation...