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Word: insulted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fling some insult back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...election of their favorites, might in itself be undeserving of blame; but when the class, through its Committee, had pledged itself to abstain from any action which should mar the desired open election, any canvass or combination was not only a gross violation of this pledge, but a direct insult and injury to the class. The qualifications of the candidates cannot at all lessen the justness of this censure, and only the universal satisfaction over the results of the election can cause it to be forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/22/1878 | See Source »

...Students who attend the services at the Methodist church on Sunday evenings "carry their rowdyism so far as to distract the attention of a large portion of the audience, annoy the speaker, and insult members of the congregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...CAMBRIDGE, January -, 187-."Sir, - How could you have so distorted an innocent Ode of Horace into an insult to me? If your objection to my music is so strong, is there need of your coming to hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...RUMOR has reached us that there is much indignation among the graduating class at the unwarrantable action of President Eliot in calling in the service of the police on Commencement night; that it was utterly unnecessary, and was a direct insult by degrading the class to the level of so many criminals. We should have been pleased to see more respect paid to the graduating class, and less open obsequiousness to the Presidential party at Commencement Dinner. For ourselves, we reserve our opinion as to the insult, but we acknowledge our blindness as to the necessity of such a summary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

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