Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Quincy statue is finally at rest upon its pedestal; but what a pedestal Brick cased in wood! Times may be hard, and the College may be poor, but it really seems as if the Corporation might have voted the small sum necessary to establish our ex-President on a sound footing in his new position. The beautiful statue, which was so generously presented to the College, has indeed been treated with singular inhospitality ever since its arrival. About three months ago it was tossed down in a corner of the vestibule in Memorial Hall, with the packing case half opened...
...last man I visited that night gave me his reasons for subscribing, and they seemed to be sound ones. "The boat-clubs, the ball nine, the foot-ball team, the goodies, the waiters, and the reading-room deserve some support from students, but the periodicals that discuss undergraduate thought and tell us what is going on around us merit the encouragement of all who are interested in anything outside of their own dinner or their own position on the rank list. As long as I am in college, I intend to take your paper, as well as the Advocate...
...sound of one's own voice is generally so delightful that many persons are unmindful of its effect on the weary listener, who has unfortunately been bound a captive to the prosy tyrant's ambition for a subject...
...they cannot always be evaded, for prosiness is not wholly confined to talkers, although with them it is most common. But in books, and in our lecture and recitation rooms, it is but too often met with; and the student, bending over a text-book or within the sound of the voice of a teacher, finds his thoughts distracted and wandering away from the subject, which should absorb his whole attention. Instead of brief, simple, terse statements, easily grasped and understood, we have attempts at profound, high-sounding expositions, whose object is to exhibit the learning of the author...
...sound the melancholy saxophone...