Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...volume issued last year among "juveniles," entitled "Three Vassar Girls Abroad" had the effect of exciting the direful wrath of the Vassar Miscellany to an unusual degree. Undaunted, the authors announce for publication this fall, "Three Vassar Girls in England." The esteemed Miscellany has a hard task before...
...numbers was written "An election guaranteed to all those buying $20 worth." The sign was placed there early in the morning but by chapel time it had mysteriously disappeared. This morning, however, it was hoisted higher up in the tree and at noon it still hung there, causing the wrath of the Bones men to boil within them, while everybody else laughed immoderately at the joke. - [Yale...
...hate and joy, and wrath and pain his gloomy soul embitters...
...have come to be characteristic of a college election, is surely diseased and vitiated, and needs most emphatically some cleansing process. Have we come to such a pass that a man's reputation and character may be sacrificed upon the altar of student ambition, or to satisfy the spewing wrath of some vituperative, vindictive caucus monger...
...teach the same old propositions year after year until they root themselves in his mind too deeply to be torn up. In ordinary life he has nobody to challenge his opinions and he must therefore be more likely than others to become dogmatic, and to be prone to wrath whenever he does encounter opposition. The reviewer then objects to Prof. Sumner because "he has set himself the task of proving that an opinion generally entertained upon both sides of the Atlantic during all past time is entirely erroneous" and so on. Space would not permit (if inclination would) an extended...