Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...read the dread roll of the day's wrecks in town...
...order to console those who live in nightly dread of awaking to find their way to terra firma cut off by the flames, we print the following: "A fire ladder has been purchased. Two ladders long enough to reach the highest windows in the College dormitories are now kept in the Yard to serve as fire-escapes in case of need. At night a watch is kept about the buildings, with a special view to the early discovery of fire...
...altered demeanor of my classmates (I am in the latter half of my course, but will not commit myself so far as to say that I am a Junior), - with their altered demeanor, I say, in regard to those little soirees in U. E. R. compared with the nervous dread with which they anticipated their first examinations within these sacred walls. Now they merely express astonishment at the old-fashioned notions of a professor, who, wishing to know how far his disciples have profited by his instructions, takes the high-school way of making them commit to paper the knowledge...
...dread Actaeon's antlers, flee...
...sick'ning dread her sad soul fills...