Word: painful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...favorite nephew to spend New Year's day with her did not understand from his written apology that he was suffering from an attack of erysipelas. The note read: "Dear aunt, I should certainly have been with you had I been well; even now I am in great pain while I write with my nose." It is presumable that a man who could successfully accomplish the feat of writing with his nose would be easily forgiven for a breach of etiquette...
...persons of sedentary habits is of prime importance. Cleanliness and sleep are too well known as requirements of good health to need much comment. We want to make ourselves sound in wind and limb, in heart and brain. We are all glad to be freed from aches or pains; how much better if we avoid some portion of them. The desire to avoid pain is one of our first acquisitions. For the most part this avoidance is most marked when the effect follows speedily on the cause. When there is considerable lapse of time between cause and effect, our perception...
...love is like a man who has got the toothache; he feels most acute pain, while nobody pities him.-BOSWELL...
...Pain L. S. Fogg, '85, and Frothingham, '86, are going to enter the Technology sports next Saturday...
...broken handles of the wreck of what once might have been a campaign torch are tied three filthy rags. What visions these symbols conjured up! "Is he, is he dead?" I murmur. "Oh, no, the faculty forbade-." Here we hear a smothered yelping as of some one in pain, but are reassured, the somewhat astonished, to hear that "it is only my pup that I have with me for a day or two." We expected much, but not this. Wellesley girls keeping dogs! We look about us and feel at once at home when we catch sight of the frequent...