Word: gracing
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...marching host in the background, who wend their stately way along the boards with a polka-mazurka step, each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes, with head on one side, mouth stretched from ear to ear, and arms akimbo, never fail and never can fail to elicit deafening plaudits from the house...
...Mayors Hall, Ely, Grace, Cooper and Wickham, General Grant, Ex-Senator Conkling, William H. Vanderbilt and Jay Gould have been summoned as a coroner's jury in the case of Geo. Mahan, who killed a fellow-patient in the Bellevue Hospital, New York, last Sunday...
...swear, my dear Grace...
...division of the present base-ball league into two - one composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Brown - the other of Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams. This is a mistake, and should be corrected. It is the prevalent opinion here that the warm advocacy of this measure comes with but ill grace from the college whose nine has suffered defeat at the hands of Dartmouth in four out of the six contests in which the two have been engaged. It is doubtless true that Dartmouth will make no violent opposition to the proposition, choosing rather to submit quietly to a manifest injustice...
...this business, a number of very important morals lying hid, that our erring sister would do very well to take to heart. Yet Yale's favorite and traditional attitude is a belligerent one, and we doubt very much if she will take it all with any very good grace; rather, we are led uncharitably to suspect that the role of injured innocence will seem to her the most natural one to take...