Word: fells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was a look of anguish and remorse upon the faces of the listeners when, at the conclusion of the second stanza, the poet fell exhausted into the arms of his friends. A moody silence ensued, broken at last by a slight, dark lady, with remarkably sharp eyes, Miss M. E. Baddone by name, who arose and read from a finely written manuscript...
...went to New Haven, and realized a sum sufficient to be a decided help in paying its expenses. But the cost of the two New York trips was large, and on account of the bad weather but very little money was taken at the gate, so that the Team fell considerably behind in finances. The managers are now going among the students, trying to stir them up to a little more enthusiastic support. We cannot urge too strongly upon all the College that we owe a great deal to the Football Team, and that we should not allow...
...result, we may hope, satisfied the class. The demonstrations made at one stage of the proceedings were highly reprehensible; any one section should learn to respect the choice of the majority, and to do otherwise is an insult to the class. As usual, the larger share of the offices fell to one society, rather in the natural course of events than from any preconcerted action, and, in one or two cases, by the votes of other sections of the class. It would have been better if a larger number of those elected had not been members of this society...
...fell, a happy mother, on his neck...
Kineo, as a boy, grew up with more than usual Indian taciturnity, and with ever-increasing gloominess of disposition. His mother, Maquaso, watched the development of these characteristics with anxiety. He gave so little heed to her solicitude that when she suddenly disappeared, suspicion at once fell upon him, and he was excluded from the councils of his tribe. He departed, and encamped on a neighboring mountain. The rest of the story is told in the lines which follow...