Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that our men could not have acted otherwise than they did. Harvard claims that there existed merely a misunderstanding, the blame of which can be justly attributed to no one. Is it not, then, obvious that on no account could an apology be expected of Harvard when she was conscious of no wrong doing? The spirit of this challenge was right and amiable, and for their good sense in accepting it the students are to be congratulated. Let these malcontents therefore regard this matter in an impartial light, and not permit themselves to quibble over an imaginary slight. - [Columbia Spectator...
...history of which John Lafarge's window is a passionate reflection. A large band of negro servitors keep the building in order, and wait upon the tables at meal-time. They go cheerfully about their work, whistling and humming their own soft melodies. One wonders if they are conscious of the significance of the scarlet stain which at noontide the sunlight casts across the floor at their feet from the memorial window...
...large - gather together they cannot behave like gentlemen. On the night in question these same forty freshmen went to the theatre for their own amusement, and with the intention of creating no disturbance. As they went with the intention of behaving like gentlemen, they cannot understand how they were conscious of any "wickedness" or "furtive glances" at a party of nine sophomores, or a total of thirteen college men, the only college men who were in the theatre beside their own party...
...meaning of aestheticism, and gives vent to its feelings on the subject in the following manner : "O, for a brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture? We are humbled in sack-cloth and ashes. We only hope that in edging his way into...
...Conscious of her power...