Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mass of students who wish to see the working of the Nine. Lastly, the nuisance on Jarvis must away; yes, the noble structure, guarded on either side by a majestic line of time-worn benches, must no longer stand an eyesore to the artistic proprietors of the mansions lying beneath its frowning walls. Truly this is an age of improvement, and no doubt a year hence a neat Gothic club-house with its grand stand and gargoyled tower will be kept from the vulgar gaze by rows of hedge many cubits high. How glad we should be to bid farewell...
...call it what new-fangled name ye will! We are hampered by the Port! While we of Old Cambridge have been enlightening the world, dreaming with Plato, fighting with Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town - a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town - has been started, is growing beneath our very nose! We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government," - we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country, is not partly in the power of a collection of dram-drinking politicians! Cambridgeport, indeed! What would...
...flower, beneath its gentle tread...
...terrible abyss is bridged over by a reach of hard drifted snow, so solid that one can walk over it, for the most part, in security; so thin that a stroke of the alpenstock will pierce it, leaving an opening through which may be discerned the blue vacancy beneath. Herbert Spencer drives his staff through the thin stratum of drifted words, of consolidated forms of thought, of congealed tradition which we have felt to be so solid beneath our feet, and bids us look and see the fathomless depths of the unknowable above which we stand...
...TENDER-HEARTED Freshman saw a man weeping violently before University yesterday, and inquired the cause of his grief. "Alas, young man," responded the editor, - for such he was, - "beneath those stones lies buried my favorite brevity...