Word: couching
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Professor John Couch Adams the celebrated astronomer is lying seriously ill at the observatory...
...unparalleled atrocities and so on have consisted in a quiet call upon some unwary freshman, a reading of some Greek or Latin author to the company by their unwilling host. probably from a recumbent position upon the table, and, finally, an invitation given him to retire to his couch, in most cases promptly accepted. Occasional instances of a departure from this rule have been exaggerated to the utmost for reasons best known to the reporters. At last, however, Princeton, has followed the example of other institutions in this respect. By the action of the student body itself acting in conjunction...
...lower quais. Now comes the rush of curious bystanders, the ropes which the officers of the Morgue let down to grapple it. Then it is put into the dead cart, while the frivolous crowd solemnly bare their heads; and at last it finds a resting place on a rugged couch behind the long, low window-and here we are on the other side of the window, gazing at it with a terrible feeling of sick fascination. Horrible! We turn away in unutterable disgust and with white lips seek the free air of Heaven once more...
...taken to task for handling our correspondent's letter too severally. We are told that our claims to age and experience are not sufficient to entitle us to the right of assuming the guidance of the university in its religious matters, and, we are sorry to add, our critics couch their reproof in very energetic terms...
...next morning, a bright and sunny Sabbath, he awoke and sprang lightly from his couch. Blithely he proceeded to untie the bundle of clothes. An exclamation of surprise escaped him. One by one, with feverish haste he examined the pieces. Each garment was new to his gaze, its form and pattern strange, its use impossible to conjecture. Slowly the awful truth dawned upon him. The garments belonged...