Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...flag, denoting that some one in the house was sick with a contagious disease. I went home and burned all the clothes I wore on the day of my call. This happened a month ago, and I am all right up to the present date. It was a narrow escape, though. Since I have calmly considered the matter, I have come to the conclusion that Rosalie (?) was looking at my tie, perhaps, or the shortness of my coat, instead of me. Reader, take my advice and experience; leave cards alone...
...flew, flew, flew over the prairie. He was alone with me in the engine cab, and taunted me again with that devilish leering sneer; and then there was a dull blow, and I threw open the throttle valve and crept, with it in my arms, through the narrow window, and dropped it under the driving-wheel. Then away we went, and the heavy train leaped and jumped from side to side as we shot through the darkness. How white their faces looked at the car window, and how they screamed! I howled at them for very joy, and I felt...
...famous races for the "head of the river" usually take place during this month. The river is of course too narrow for more than two crews to row abreast, so, instead of such a race as our class races last Saturday, they are always "bumping races," as every one who remembers the account of the exciting contest described in "Tom Brown" will recall. The boats are placed in line, - the last a little above Iffley, - with a certain distance between them; at the signal, all start off, each trying to "bump" the boat ahead, before reaching the finish, which...
...course, will always keep to the straight-away race system, which is a better test, perhaps, of the relative merits of four or five crews which may race at one time; but under the conditions at Oxford - a narrow river and fifteen or sixteen competing crews - nothing better could be devised than the bumping races which have been rowed for so many years...
...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...