Word: wretched
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...utmost end of the term - why, oh, why should this be? The editorial mind confesses to entertaining in its simplicity the opinion that undergraduates who finish their examinations earliest might better go home to loaf than make life doubly hideous with the revelry of their rejoicing for the unlucky wretch whose examinations are packed into the last few days...
Mirza (a mirzinary wretch, and prototype of the Echo).............J. C. Ford...
...they seemed so fierce in their wrath that I was almost frightened to death. I never saw such mad girls in all my life as the Miscellany editors were. They wanted to lock the doors and stay a day, a week, a month, if necessary, until the guilty wretch should confess the crime; and they would have stayed, too, if some one hadn't come and said that the expressman had just brought a box of Whitman's candy to one of them; and then they thought they could discover the culprit by asking all the innocent ones...
...Villanous wretch!" I cried, "by what infamous demon were you impelled to tear from my arms the adorable Carolinda! What form of rapacity possesses the man who will wrench from me the light of my eyes and the sole object of my affections!" At this point my violent declamation attracted attention in the Somerset Club, and a waiter came rushing out with a carving-knife in his hand. Lardy, who had been overcome by my eloquence, fell forward into his arms, and was accidentally pierced by this weapon. Adelinda, who, it appears, had always cherished a secret passion for Lardy...
...graceless wretch...