Word: cast
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have a voice in the management of the College could do so. Usually there is very little rivalry for the office of Overseers, and the result of the election is satisfactory to everybody. Still there may come a time when at some election every graduate will desire to cast his vote. Suppose, for example, that James Freeman Clarke and Colonel Higginson, who are so anxious to introduce co-education into the College, should make this question an issue. In this case most of us, whether we lived near or far, would desire to avail ourselves of our privilege of voting...
...alas! the four joyous years fly on the wings of the wind, and all at once and almost before he is aware of it the poor inexperienced collegian is cast unprotected upon the world. The schoolmates of his youth are now men of business, or have taken a short cut to the professions, and are far in advance of him in maturity. The graduate knows no more about the "Ledger" and "Day Book" than he did before he came to college, and often wishes himself back to the simpler logarithmic tables; he remembers well enough the constitution of the Amphyctyonic...
...recently published poem called "Deirdre" occurs an episode which I wish to relate here. The inhabitants of a peaceful fishing-village find one day on the beach, cast there by the drifting ice, a living animal, to them unknown...
...Cast his last beam upon the red-blood rills...
...have you cast your lashes down...