Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wednesday morning, breakfast was eaten in Cincinnati. During the day the cable cars which climb the steep hills of the city were well patronized by those who had fallen under the influence of the sight-seeing habit. The suspension bridge over the Ohio was crossed by many who desired to set foot on Kentucky soil...
...much. For instance, King Teutobach of the Teutons is said to have vaulted over six horses standing side by side; and another king, Olaf Tryggesson of Norway, according to an old chronicle of that country, was stronger and more nimble than any man in his dominions. He could climb up the rock Smalserhorn and fix his shield on the top of it; he could walk round the outside of a boat upon oars, while the men were rowing; he could play with three darts, alternately throwing them in the air, and always kept two of them up, while he held...
...best of our ability." The writer has dug for himself a deeper chasm than that which exists "between science and religion, which nobody has yet succeeded in bridging" - oh! - and in trying to leap it, has brought up in the depths between the two sides, from which he can climb up neither. Christianity itself recognizes the impossibility of any such bridge as he undertakes to construct: "Ye cannot serve two masters...
...criticised even more harshly, - I mean the practice some men have made of leaving Sanders in the midst of the lectures that are frequently delivered there. It must cause a speaker no little annoyance to see, before his lecture is half through, a score or more of men climb over the knees of five or six people and stalk out. If the offenders are freshmen, it is to be hoped that living a year or two in the atmosphere of gentlemen will enable them to discriminate between common courtesy and boorishness. But if any of the offenders are upperclassmen, there...
...most popular courses in college. Therefore, every attempt should be made to have the lecture room in its comfortableness in accordance with the popularity and interest of the course. But complaints are continually made that the lectureroom is altogether too hot for the enjoyment of the lectures. Men who climb to such a height as the top of the Museum, expect to get above the regions of intense heat; but in these expectations they are terribly disappointed. A temperature of eighty or ninety degrees, Farenheit, is too hot for the natural continuance of life, to say nothing of the gaining...