Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These lines have been written in the faint hope that there may be improvement in this respect in the future, and, hoping that they will be utilized, slips of paper have been left near the box in Brock and Leavitt's, on which students may write anything they deem of interest to their fellow undergraduates...
...stared vacantly at me. and seemed puzzled. Finally she gave me a faint smile and said half confidentially, "O, you musn't think I care for Homer so much. Of course when I 'went in' for classics, I had to read him a good deal, and so had the other girls, but I don't think any of us cared much about it. As long as we could get through it somehow and pass, the rest didn't matter...
...comet of 1812, which for several weeks has been within telescopic range is now visible to the naked eye. It is but a faint object yet, but will increase in brightness until January 25, when it reaches its perihelion...
...Faint ripples on its level brim...
...that he who has departed first from among us has left us the example of an upright life and of an unflinching death. At the same time we feel deep sorrow at our loss and sincere sympathy with his family in their affliction, and it is to give some faint expression of this feeling of sorrow and of sympathy that we have met together...