Word: shake
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshmen think that the college papers are the originators of opinions. Poor deluded Freshmen! Public opinion, far from being the offspring of the papers, is their master; and, like Sindbad's "Old Man of the Sea," is riding them to death. If they could shake it off, they might stand up straight and grow strong. As it is, they scold vigorously at the instructors and the "marking-system," but turn their backs when some wrong appears at which the majority wink...
...below. When he does pluck up courage enough to climb the stairs, what a noise he makes on the way! Even the quiet men above me, who belong to the very small class that neither whistle nor sing in the entries, come down the stairs in five steps, and shake the building; and they're not as bad as the fellows who seem to dance a polka all the way down. I find I'm worse off this year than ever. Can you suggest any remedy? Is there a room where I can make a noise without disturbing other people...
...autumn-spruces sadly shake...
...poetical inspiration seized me when standing on the platform of the sleeping-car last night. The practical and material conceptions were suggested in the coal-closet. I came back here only to find the fire out, and while I was trying to shake out the ashes I heard your step. I thought I would let you finish the job, and therefore jumped into the coal-hole. Much obliged to you for this cheerful blaze, by the by. Can I do anything for you ?" "Yes," said I, "you have a prior right to the management of this fire, so suppose...
...advantages of the relation of chum and chum over that of man and wife, not the least is, that if chums do not agree they can separate. No need of a journey to Indiana, and no troublesome incumbrances either. All needful is, at the end of the year, to shake hands with number one, and then, either to take up with number two, or to resume the freedom of bachelor-ship. For, in chumming, it is possible to follow out Lord Dundreary's idea, "If you find you don't like me, you know, you can go back to your...