Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...peaceably hold - may well be compared to Greece itself. The societies, of which we all are so proud, are not unlike the elegant states which grew up in the genial climate of Attica and of the Peloponnesus, - the modern prototype of which may be found in the shadow of the elms of the College Yard. And, to carry the simile a little further, at the risk of offending some very good friends of mind, the grim body of non-society men are not unlike the semi-barbaric peoples of Illyria and Achaia, to which melancholy region I shall venture...
Forever with her shadow...
...shadow in the water...
...second place, "There's a chiel amang ye takin' notes"; in fact, several of them. For there are, or have been, several undergraduates connected with Boston papers. There is no harm or shadow of injury in that, so long as their efforts are confined to the delineation of absolute facts, and their imaginations are not drawn on for the sake of another paragraph. But we may safely leave to their sense of honor not to wilfully misrepresent...
...leafage fusing in one shadow...