Word: blacked
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...rulers on the question, and it seemed certain that my enemy would be successful. In anger and bitterness of spirit I walked the grass before the Hall. A fierce gale was raging, and above gigantic wind-torn clouds rushed across the sky. Suddenly, in the gloom, a shape, black as the storm, with eyes as fiery as my wrath, stood by my side and whispered...
Within the black grave of thy treachery...
...wrinkled form in black and white arrayed...
...statesmen stalk abroad, black living lies...
...CORRESPONDENT of the Oxford and Cambridge Journal is much disturbed by the fact that certain undergraduates will persist in dining in Hall in "the hideous mixtures which tailors delight to turn out." According to this writer, "black coats are the only garments in which it is decent for gentlemen to dine in the society of gentlemen"; and he thinks that fines ought to be imposed upon all undergraduates who are ill-bred enough to wear anything else...