Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Temple; and dread Famine bound...
Raise thine eyes with a look of dread...
...sooner are the pencil-marks obliterated from our fingers and cuffs, and no sooner are the piles of blue books safe in the hands of the dread examiner, revealing, by their deficiencies, awful tales of nights at Carl's and the Howard, than, instead of being harassed by dire visions of a vacation passed in making up conditions, we are crushed beneath the no less awful question what to do with it. In the coming fall, the oft-repeated query, "Did you enjoy your vacation?" will be answered by a careless, "Yes," under which lurks an uneasy feeling that...
...stock of self-conceit which is said to belong to every young man of seventeen or thereabout. But this year we have had not even a "Bloody Monday," nor are we likely to witness any of the consequences which have usually followed the "rushes" and single encounters of that dread night. This long-desired result has been brought about, primarily, not by the efforts and regulations of the Faculty, - persevering and severe as they have been, - but by the change in the opinions of the students themselves, who, as the age of the entering classes has increased, and influenced, perhaps...
...lovers dread the wrath...