Word: hideously
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...animals? There must have been some interference with the work of the Creative reason. We cannot see all the causes of that interference, but man is one pain-producing cause. Unless the Supreme Reason caused the cruel, heedless, selfish thoughts in man, it is not responsible for the hideous pains which man inflicts. Once more then we are driven to the study of man, to see how it is that he can interfere with nature to produce ugliness and pain, or beauty and pleasure...
...Trial by Jury of Things Supernatural" by Professor James B. Thayer, shows the hideous farce of bringing the law to decide upon matters of which it has no cognizance whatever...
...sickening. There are certain papers in Boston which seem to make a business of filling up their columns with false trash about Harvard whenever they are hard up for stuff. People easily believe sensational stories about the college. particularly when little occurrences are made to assume the proportions of hideous crimes. The thing has ceased to be a joke and is fast becoming a downright nuisance...
...they make pedestrianism on the path to the library an exceedingly dangerous undertaking by swooping down the hill on their bobsleighs and barrel-staves. They come, too, in such rapid succession that it requires skill and coolness to dodge them. Added to this, they make day and night hideous with their hoots and yells, and must be extremely unpleasant neighbors to the inmates of Dr. Peabody's and President Eliot's houses. Why we should be called upon to tolerate such unmitigated nuisances right in our midst is rather difficult of comprehension. We appeal to those who have authority...
...looked upon for a long time. At the entrance to the gymnasium the members of the team were cheered long and lustily. In the evening a celebration was held in honor of our victory, and bonfires, roman candles, fire-crackers and skyrockets (not the Princeton cheer) made night hideous for a short time. The general enthusiasm, however, was considerably dampened by the unfortunate accident to Captain Holden, to whose energy and patience Harvard men, individually and collectively, owe so much...