Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...each faint and famished ember...
...first faint stars are blinking...
...what description is this new invention? I really do not know. Perhaps it is like one of Krupp's guns. If so, what excellent swabbers and rammers and powder-monkeys the proctors would make! Perhaps - but why should I speculate? Why should the idea - the exceedingly faint and undefined idea - that at the approaching semi-annuals the brains of each and every one of us are to be carefully removed, dissected, weighed, and measured by this infallible instrument transform me into a querulous interrogation-point? Let us welcome the new machine, and accept with courage its edicts, conscious that they...
...strange that we should have but such a scant picture of his college life, which could hardly fail to be a remarkable one. We give the few faint glimpses that are afforded us by the excellent biography of the Rev. Dr. Little-kin, whose research has been both conscientious and scholarly...
...Spirit's" correspondent can say in his accusations of cowardice and unfairness will never convince any one but his sympathizers that Harvard has acted, or desired to act, in other than an open, fair, and manly way in this or any other matter. His accusations of unfairness and faint-heartedness are, in view of Cornell's withdrawal of her challenge, particularly ill-timed...