Word: dulle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...playing will be written in the entry-book. Umpires and scorer will be appointed later. Those who are interested in Lawn Tennis should not fear to take part in this tournament. Most men are now through their annuals, and this affair is intended to fill up the few dull days before Class Day, and to promote sport...
Fade into darkness dull and bleak...
...grapes? That is very old, and, besides, I never did aspire to a lofty mark. Spider, who is chuckling at his triumph over me, is an unfeeling brute. His victory is not a fair one. He does not consider that while he has been grinding at that dull Greek, I have been enjoying some English classic that is none the less profitable because it will not add five per cent to my Greek mark. Indeed, if I should grind continually on my electives, I might score better marks; but at what a cost! What progress should I make...
THREE years ago several of the leading clergymen of Boston occupied, on different Sunday evenings, the Chapel pulpit; and the result was that on these occasions the Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. At Cambridge Sunday is at best a dull day, especially when the cold weather prevents us from attending church in Boston; and if means were taken to enable the students to hear, on successive Sunday evenings, such men as Phillips Brooks, Edward Everett Hale, and James Freeman Clarke, the service would be thoroughly appreciated by the students...
...Catacombs! I always enter it with much the same feeling that I would a great mausoleum. The gloom which comes over me deepens as I take my seat, for I know that my dexter companion will give me no repose. My Plutonic melancholy, the heated room, the dull Livy, -all are conducive to slumber; the very instructor seems admirably chosen to that end: but my naps are broken by my active neighbor, who says, "The French Left Centre don't care for the status quo, and the Pope's legs are horribly swollen." Now I don't know what...