Word: saking
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...fell for my child's sake...
That for my sake the Queen is put to death...
...supposed wrong. The recent complaints with regard to the hours for closing the Gymnasium are a case in point. An interview with Dr. Sargent clears up the whole matter. The real reason for the present regulation is not, as the complainants hastily assumed, to defraud the students for the sake of certain muscularly inclined instructors, but to further the good of the students themselves...
...supposed when the 5.30 limit was set that there would be a demand for any other; nor is it believed that the present fault-finding really voices the sentiments of many: it is little more than the grumbling of a few who grumble merely for the sake of grumbling. They are of a sort with the individual who, coming into the Gymnasium one cold day, and changing his heavy ulster for a light gauze shirt, complained at the office that the hall was unbearably cold; and who, after exercising violently for ten minutes, returned and lodged another remonstrance, - that...
...sure; he therefore rushed to this side and to that, vainly hoping to catch a glimpse of the fair. At last, tired out, he sat down to rest; and then, for the first time, he noticed that day was nearly done. He was frightened, now, for the girl's sake; he shouted, "Tue! Tue! You will be lost! I promise not to touch you; only come here, and let us go home." But the girl did not answer; and after another unsuccessful search for her he was forced to start home without...