Word: parteing
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...gray lips part in sighs of bitterness...
...once submerges itself about three feet underneath the water, while the other raises itself aloft threateningly. Remembering your childish experience in see-saw, you make a rush up the log toward the middle. Arrived there you breathe a sigh of relief, for the unexpected show of vivacity on the part of such an apparently stolid mass has startled you not a little. For a moment you remain perfectly still; then suddenly, and without any manifest reason, the fiendish creature begins to revolve rapidly. You follow your natural instinct and keep your feet moving so as to counteract the motion...
...ideas. Diggles had a girl, - in fact, he had several, but the others don't count. Last summer he was at the mountains; his girl was there too. This was a coincidence, though Mr. Diggles assures us it was entirely unintentional on his part...
...promisingly. Last year was a poor one for the Union. The attendance, even on occasions when the questions under discussion were live and absorbing, was not calculated to inspire the disputants to any very great exertions. Most noticeable, too, was the almost entire lack of enthusiasm on the part of those who were not leading disputants. Occasionally there would be a good five-minute speech from the house. But such speeches were very few and far between. Now, it was entirely foreign to the original intention of the Union that the debate should be monopolized by four men; for debates...
...nourished. I confess to a feeling of exasperation when one of these untutored minds propounds a view of life, or gives an estimate of character, without recognizing in any way the verdict of New England cultivation. Yet, although his lack of deference to authority is certainly due, in part, to ignorance, we must nevertheless admit the value of his new standards of criticism. He may have too little respect for the pleasures of the mind and too much for the pleasures of the body; too little aptitude for the amenities of life, and too much for its sensualities...