Word: horrors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...unnoticed by the maiden. Her thoughts, indeed, were running upon pickpockets; and the probability that even she might be robbed of her small sum and the locket that contained the picture of her lover led her to thrust her hand hastily into her pocket to secure her purse. Horror! she finds a hand already there. Surely it is the hand of a thief. Grasping it bravely and holding it fast, she looked up for the owner, and was surprised to find that the villain had such a gentlemanly face. He even smiled sweetly upon her as she caught...
...Williams Athenaeum holds up its hands in holy horror, as it says with bated breath: "The following conversation was overheard by one of our students at a fashionable watering-place this summer...
...been working as hard as I could on his course, but, as he had given me more work than I could perform by studying twenty-three hours a day, I did not expect a very exalted mark. To-day, on entering his chamber of horror, I saw the section sitting with their heads buried in their hands, and Mr. Hut gazing at them with an air of triumph. Creeping to the desk, I gasped: "My mark?" "Eighteen per cent," briskly answered he of condition fame. After the recitation, when about to poison myself with soda at Hubbard...
Some of my experiences last year were almost as bad. When I was told that my mark in German was forty-nine, I looked somewhat aghast, for I had written a first-rate paper. The instructor, noticing my horror, kindly offered to explain, and took me with him to the tutorial mansion. I was astonished to see the library-table covered with mathematical instruments, for he did not teach mathematics; the explanation soon came. He first showed me six trifling errors in my book; then he drew a circle with a radius of six inches, inscribed an equilateral triangle...
These sights filled me with horror and disgust, and I hastened to the gallery. What a change! An air of comfort pervaded everything. No more care-worn faces to be seen, but everywhere happiness and ease! Here I found a great crowd who were eager to enter the booth devoted to Art. Many were turned away and could only peer in, and see their more fortunate friends reclining on divans and feasting their eyes on the pictures and statuary which surrounded them. Close by were two booths where one could be taught to imitate the Italians and Spaniards in their...