Word: monstering
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Take your arm away - you monster...
...Send that man away, do!" And she shuddered as if George had been a monster frightful to look upon...
This Sharp must be a monster not to love...
...likeness. When the photographer has arranged you to his satisfaction, and your head is pushed up against the iron rest, and you are trying to look interested in a nail on the wall, when all the while you feel as constrained as possible, the word is uttered and the monster eye is about to glare; and just then, of a sudden, you wonder if you are opening your eyes wide enough. Every one likes to have justice done to his eyes, and so you lift your eyelids a little, and when the "proof" comes out, those two very expressive features...
...undergraduates, are the children who sport with merry gambols on the green. And that thing, once frail but now a huge monster which may at any moment devour us all, is the hour-examination system. We all remember the first adoption of this system; how innocent the idea seemed when first presented to us, with what care it was nursed into stronger life. Did we not honor and bow down before it, and look to it for unnumbered blessings? Then it was a small and tender thing, but now it has grown, - ye gods, how it has grown! The plan...