Word: bleakness
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...foot-ball game and wish to bathe their bruised limbs in tepid steam and ease their wounds, nothing but the coldest of water can be had to solace them water so cold that it parches the skin and cracks the muscles and sends a man tottering out to the bleak entry prematurely aged like an Arctic explorer. Not so with the rugged stoic who delights, like Caesar's Germans, to lave his sturdy limbs in ice water; the streams of Socrate have turned hot ere he reaches the bath, and he may count himself happy an he is not scalded...
...first of the series of foot-ball games for the class championship was played yesterday between eighty-six and eighty-nine. It was as bad a day as could well be imagined, being bleak and cold with a strong wind blowing directly down the field. Eighty-six won the toss and took the upper side of the field, thus having wind and sun at their backs. Eighty-nine had the kick off and passed the ball to Morgan who gained about fifteen yards. This was about as near as the freshmen got to their opponents' goal, as the ball went...
...number of preparatory scholars here during commencement week, and the glamour of that delightful period would have its effect on their youthful imaginations. Princeton then is beautiful in the "high tide of June," full of fair visitors, rich with birds and blossems, and with never a hint of the bleak, rainy season of the winter months, nor of the steady grind of second term...
...hardly be disputed, we think, that long-continued and meritorious services should have earned them by this time a pension and retirement from all active service on half-pay, so that they might spend the rest of their days cropping the tender grass of some bleak New England pasture, or nibbling from well-kept stalls the fragrant...
...winter's night is bleak and bare...