Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long since we have attempted to criticise our contemporaries that we have found ourselves almost overwhelmed with the constantly increasing pile of exchanges; and it is with a feeling of despair and dread that we put on our overhauls and prepare to slash around...
WILLIAMSTOWN, June 22. - While other colleges are rejoicing in the festivities of commencement week, Williams men are grinding away in dread despair on the verge of that one institution hated above all others by a college man, annual examinations. The seniors are nearly through their work, their final examinations coming on Thursday and Friday of this week. At Friday evening prayers they will be formally dismissed from college with the usual ceremony, familiarly known to Williams men as "Hi Juvenes...
Miss Dickinson is to cross the dramatic Rubicon next Monday evening; she will appear in New York as Hamlet, and is said to dread lest the withering criticism of the city will destroy the laurels she has won in the provinces...
...seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the Ibis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces, - but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum? For how can one little Tiger, however fierce and frantic he be, make a menagerie all by himself? Can a feather...
...thing I dread, thou dost...