Word: senselessly
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...philosopher entered his hut and, in excitement, poured out a confused medley of "dining with Yung" and "the long-sought husband" and "be here to-morrow." Senseless indeed it seemed, but Tue heard enough to assure her that her husband had been chosen...
AGAIN comes up the question of the Freshman theatre party; and, with the Advocate, we are heartily opposed to the recurrence of that senseless folly. When first they became the custom, these theatre parties were merely a manifestation of the exhuberant delight of a lot of schoolboys at breaking away from the apron-strings. But nowadays Freshman classes are composed of men so much older and more mature in every way, that they would scorn such an explanation of their acts. They keep up the custom, not because they actually get much enjoyment from its observance - for we believe that...
...read no more, but with a shriek of "Vichy straight," fell senseless on the floor...
...with the faults of others. The letter-box - or, if you please, the lamp-post - wears its wallet but in front. Faults of its own it has none; but when does it fail to bear the burden of others' mistakes? And do not tell me it is but a senseless object. No, take my word, it broods over all these secrets that are trustfully committed to its keeping; it ponders anxiously over the remedy to be applied here, or the check there. It has a soul. It is not an it, but an It, with a big I. It feels...
...Nine, chafed by the severe criticism of senseless writers, and ridiculed by would-be authorities on base-ball matters, has proven itself capable of deeds surpassing all the former triumphs which Yale has gained on the ball-field." - Yale News, May 27, 1878. Amended June...