Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...couples took the opportunity to retreat to the theatre, which was opened for flirtations. Towards the end of the evening, the crowd was so much diminished, that dancing, instead of an infliction, became a pleasure, and one's toes, at the end of a turn, were in a fairly sound condition...
...censure and scathing sarcasm that have been hurled upon his defenceless head for weeks past have entirely destroyed his nervous system. He has grown prematurely old. I dare say that a close observer could detect a few straggling gray hairs in his head. No more do we hear the sound of the "squeaking boots" ; his manly tread is silenced. 'T is pitiful to see him moping on the corners with his brothers, or sitting with his face buried in his hands, heaving now and then a gentle sigh, as if remembering the happy days that are no more...
...weight, 240 pounds. This boat was obtained through the generous gift of a graduate, whose name is withheld. The interest in boating manifested by some of our graduates seemed to take the form of an eager desire to give the goddess of Harvard rowing, when she was down, a sound drubbing, and then take away what little means she had of raising herself. This unknown gentleman has extended to her a strong helping hand, left her to use the props she had before, and given her a stout new stick for her next race. To him the students return their...
...roughing" the Record. We had no intentions of interfering in a family quarrel, - that is, a family joke. We hope the Courant's ungallant remarks on "wanton exhibitions of feminine levity and frivolity" (i. e. young ladies' talking in the Library) are also a joke but they sound rather too serious to be quite polite...
...make laws, but only to carry out the wishes of the Association; and a question so important as this ought to have been decided by ballot. The assertion that the majority were not competent to vote, as some allege, is rank nonsense: every man's opinion is sound when the stomach is concerned. We say, then, that the compromise in itself is a satisfactory one; but that the action of the Directors, in not consulting the wishes of the body they are supposed to represent, is establishing a dangerous and illegal precedent...