Word: wroth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hearing this news, King Hildebrand is highly wroth, and is about to declare war on the Princess and bring her by force, but is persuaded by Prince Hilarion and his two friends Cyril and Florian to allow them to go to the castle and attempt to turn the Princess from her stern resolve. The king not only gives his consent but agrees to go with them, and the four set out to capture Castle Adamant by cunning. The next act is at Castle Adamant, and after several vain attempts to enter the castle the four wanderers dress themselves...
...young freshwomen of Vassar are now required to submit to a process called "squelching," which, judging from the vague accounts at hand, appears to be in the nature of an extra course in rhetoric. They are represented as very wroth over the infliction, and have even gone so far as to suggest to the faculty that hazing be substituted as more humane. - [Boston Journal...
...affords us a melancholy satisfaction to learn that we were right in attaching so large an influence to Dr. Crosby's violent utterances against college sports. The press are already beginning to take the question up. A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, who signs himself "A Victim," waxes very wroth over the subject. His letter is interesting as showing what is the probable temper of many outsiders in the matter. "For one," he cries, "I am rejoiced that at last a man of Dr. Crosby's standing has raised his voice to protest against an abuse which, as I believe...
...wind is wroth, and madly hurls...
...granite steps, and venturing in, he encountered two strange and marvellous beasts. One was as a polar bear, white; the other bore the tawny mane of a lion, but naught else pertaining to that creature. Then Lighthead trembled in his sandals, for these guardians of the place seemed very wroth. But the first despatched him to the second, and the second to the first; and whilst they were dallying thus, Lighthead vanished through the door, leaving them still discussing which of them should feed upon him; for he was a fresh morsel...