Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...objected to is supplied by the following sentence quoted from the longest article, entitled "The Flagellants." "Every day thereafter, the victim's bloody back burned up in red hell-fire before the tormentor's wild eyes: divine threats of damnation echoed through the silence; amid the awful glare two gaunt figures writhed,- the one upon the floor, his eyes starting out in agony, the other in the air, his eyes swelling with glutted revenge...
...modulates down into the dead commonplace. "Colonel Carter of Cartersvilie" is "niggery" but agreeable. "The Record of Virtue" is an interesting article of philanthropy working ignorantly. "A Pair of Old boys" by Maurice Thompson is excessively amusing. "Sister Dolorosa" is one of James Lane Allen's imaginings of gaunt Kentucky atmosphered mediaeval and European poetry. Stories by Joel Chandler Harris and Euzabeth Stuart Phelps complete the fiction...
...wish you would suggest to our landscape gardener that while there is yet time he should transplant the young creepers he has set out so profusely against the Law School to the gaunt and bare rear walls of Hastings, which have not been given any, the Physical Laboratory and Thayer Hall, which would look handsomer, the deeper its natural hideousness were hidden from sight. The Law School is one of the few Harvard buildings that can stand scrutiny; and to cover up its walls with vines, especially the fine carved shield on its eastern wing, while the ugly architecture...