Word: painful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should forget that he owes a duty to his people whose wishes should be consulted before committing oneself irrevocably to a course which might give them pain. I do not think that any man who now belongs to a military organization and who is familiar with its duties should hesitate to go when that body is called out. Others should consider carefully, and when the conscience tells them it is time to go, will serve the better for the delay, especially if they have in the meantime learned the manual of arms. No one can question the patriotism of Harvard...
...current issue of the Lampoon needs no introduction. It comes to us as an old, old friend, and brings to us tender recollections of days at school, when a pun on "bass bawl" and "base ball," or the confusion of "pane" with "pain" seemed to us as merry as could anything. To speak seriously there are in the number some old and some rather strained jokes...
...once in the street, who she was, and her reply that she was an old struggler gave the doctor keen delight. Johnson, too, so he rejoined, was an old struggler, and bestowed upon the beggar woman all the money he had in his pockets. And this sense of pain and struggle can never be lost in any true estimate of Samuel Johnson...
...utmost care, under the best advice, and in such a manner that their studies from first to last may form a rationally connected whole. It is believed that any plan of study, deliberately made and adhered to, will be more profitable than studies chosen from year to year, without pain, under the influence of temporary preferences...
...which the sinner is purged. Here the soul welcomes suffering as an approach to the utmost felicity. There is terrible suffering, but suffering always borne with content. The shades of Purgatory have the semblance of the earthly body, but they are subject to no fleshly need, though susceptible to pain and pleasure...