Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...offers for our delectation, be oblivious of preparations for the unknown and boundless future. The rise of Sever, the coming of celestial John, the prospective conversion of our late rendezvous into ablutionary liquid, the completion of this grand palaestra, - all these events remind us that this too, too solid flesh* must die, decay, and pass into nothingness...
Shall I force the flesh away from its hiding...
...Then take thy bond! take thou thy pound of flesh...
...number of men who carry their hero-worship to such an extent is happily small. But although Gosling is not often seen at Harvard, he does exist here. We all know him. He is not an imaginary phenomenon, but real flesh and blood. To use a milder and perhaps more applicable illustration than the former one, he is the man who, though he has a short neck, must needs make himself ugly and very miserable by wearing a high collar, because Swellington, who has a long neck, can wear such a collar comfortably and to advantage...
Already the swarthy Ethiops had prepared the feast; some had torn the skin from the ribs and laid the flesh bare; and others had placed the brazen caldrons and prepared the fires, and the hash was served...