Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Well, can you wonder at despair, and if his heart did break...
...noise in the Yard, and, going out to see what was the matter, he heard a voice exclaim, "Here comes old Eliot." But last winter, walking into town one evening, he met two undergraduates, and heard one say to the other, when he had passed by, "I wonder where Charlie is going at this time of night...
...City of Peking," as I recently heard, has been condemned as unfit for sea in a little more than a year from the time of her launching, and is being rebuilt. If such is the condition of American companies, who can wonder that sensible men and women prefer to trust their lives with the English lines, who, at least, "assume a virtue if they have...
...most, know only in the varied scenes of college life. I do not advocate the abolition of the last opportunity of a class to join in prayer, but only that the importance of that occasion should be appreciated, and that it should not be marred by any wonder as to how well Tom or Dick can "make a prayer." We listen every morning to the simple eloquence of the preacher to the University; can we not trust him at so solemn a time as our Class Day service...
...life-like movements. I strongly suspect that with the real indifference writers have had also in their minds that appearance, I will not say affectation, of it which comes from some acquaintance with the world. A countryman at a fair goes off like a surcharged soda-bottle at every wonder, but when the bloom of curiosity is rubbed off it is seen to be gaucherie to overflow, since all things have their explanation...