Word: browning
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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References. - Locke on the Understanding, Book II. Dugald Stewart's Works, edition by Hamilton, I., 348, &c., 389. Thomas Brown's Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, IV. Fleming, Manual of Moral Philosophy. Upham, Moral Philosophy, I. N. Porter, Human Intellect. Todd's Cyclopaedia, article on Sleep, by W. B. Carpenter. Maudsley, Physiology and Pathology of the Mind. Spencer, Principles of Psychology...
...introduced to a damsel whom Fate had doubly tried to conceal, not only by naming her Smith, but also by giving her hair and eyes of the universal mind's own brown hue; and as I danced with her my own optics would wander away from her to the fair-haired Amy and that ill-omened Yale man, in spite of me, so that I fear the Miss Smith had a very meagre opinion of what Harvard "culchaw" had done...
When he is aware of a nut-brown mayd...
...down beside me. A few minutes passed by in silence, when the woman sighed heavily. Now if there is one thing more than another which affects me, it is a woman's sighs (pity the pun). I dropped my book and looked. Heavens! What a vision! Beautiful light brown hair, very dark brown eyes, perfect features, and a figure that would have thrown all the Venuses of Milo in the shade. My ideal was realized, for that she was a country girl, the basket which she carried, containing an apple and a sandwich, bore direct testimony. I noted all these...
Three contestants in the running broad jump made the following records: Thayer, '81 (U. of Penn.), 20 ft. 2 in.; Thompson, '82 (Harvard), 19 ft. 11 1/2 in.; and Irons, '81 (Brown...