Word: instant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...well for Harvard, and, thanks to our rushers, the ball remained at Princeton's end for the first few minutes. Princeton soon rallied, however, and slowly worked the ball to the middle of the field; soon the ball was near our goal-line, then was held down, and an instant after was behind our line. Sedgwick and Loney both touched the ball; Harvard claimed that Sedgwick had touched the ball down, but, as Loney held it on the ground after Sedgwick's hand had been taken off, the referee decided it a touch-down for Princeton, - a decision which created...
...started until an hour after the appointed time. At five minutes past twelve the word was given, but the Yale men seemed to have perceived by intuition that it was coming, and got under way a second or two before Harvard. But our men were off the next instant, and made the smooth paper shell literally jump through the water. At the end of the sixth stroke they were fairly ahead of Yale, and the rest of the race showed only a constant increase of the distance between the two boats...
Fred was up in an instant, and had the horses by the heads. They, poor fellows, were used to him as a charioteer, and were not surprised. And, amid screams of laughter, all the passengers rose from their deep bed of snow. All? No. Where is Ethel? She does not move. She lies, still and white, under the light where she fell. And they rub her hands, and put snow on her white forehead, and she does not move. And they get out smelling-salts, and send up to the house for brandy, and she does not move...
...boat is pushed off and paddled by one or two oars a short way up stream. For a minute or two the crew rest at ease, then they straighten up and sit for an instant as rigid and still as so many marble statues. "Ready!" says the coxswain; the eight backs reach out. "Go!" Up come the heads together, and away they go up the river, around the bend with a long swinging stroke, the crimson blades flash in the sunlight as they dip the water, and the regular "swash, swash," of the stroke floats down the river...
...Princeton, but they failed in always having a man on the spot to follow up the advantage; in which latter respect Harvard was "right there." On the Harvard team Seamans's playing was splendid; Blanchard was rugged, and always on hand; Cushing, '79, was omnipresent, turning up at every instant; Holmes worked well; Herrick made some pretty, though not very effective, runs; and Winsor several good dashes. Mr. Wetherbee was much missed; and, in fact, the want of strong rushers, like Messrs. Leeds and Rollins, was much felt...