Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would have stopped him, but I could not : my hands and tongue were as if tied. He raised the pistol, aimed it with shaking hand, and fired. The smoke cleared away, and Jackson fell back on me, fainting. Oh, horrors! the bullet had gone clean through the devilish shape, and through the hole the moonlight was shining. A cold shiver ran through me and the perspiration streamed down my face. The figure dilated mockingly, and the arms waved back and forth threateningly, glistening deathly white. The head bowed solemnly. Good Heavens! this was more than mortal flesh could bear...
...regret to say, has been found with the administration of the Dining Hall. The food, it is said, is of poor quality; the price of board has been greatly increased; the monthly statements of expenses no longer appear; the Auditor presents his report to the Directors in such a shape, that, by his own admission, verification is impossible; Directors are neglectful of their duty, and their authority is not respected by the head waiter and the steward; employes are inefficient and uncivil. And the great majority of such complaints are only too well founded. It is painfully evident that...
...glad to hear that in addition to the pictures of the various athletes who have represented Harvard in the past, the meeting-room in the new Gymnasium will also contain a record of our College's progress in track athletics, in the shape of tablets similar in style to those now in the rowing-room, commemorating the different class races. A separate tablet will be devoted to each event, and at the head of the list will be the first record made at Harvard at the game; and the record of every time it has since been improved...
...these specious accusations to do with the matter under discussion? They will not alter the fact that the real successes in Shakspere criticism have latterly been achieved mainly by the society which the Advocate affects to despise. The method of study by which the plays have assumed some chronological shape, by which metrical tests have been consistently applied, by which the growth of style can be traced, by which we arrive at some knowledge of the poet's mind and art, - these things are due in large part to the "very erratic kite." But the Advocate has happily reduced...
...they naturally look for corresponding hard work on the part of our representative athletes. On this account we are averse to wholesale praise and to wholesale blame of the Nine, and we firmly believe that, if those who are foremost in circulating derogatory reports would put them in the shape of judicious suggestions to those connected with base ball, more good would result...