Word: sheerness
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...quietly]. - That is very annoying. [He pays no attention.] [Peremptorily.] Put down that whip, sir, if you please. [He drops it in sheer amazement...
...sheer Cape angrily plunges till...
...pity that single-scullers who have yet to win fame on the Charles are so shy in entering the Junior race. We are confident that there are men in the under classes who pulled in singles before they came to college, and have since neglected this manly sport from sheer laziness. It is understood, we trust, that the fee of three dollars will not be exacted from men who enter for the Scratch Races. The fifty cents entrance-fee goes to purchase the chaste and unpresuming pewter mugs. It is earnestly hoped that the University will turn out large numbers...
...first place in the social world at Neophogen, and afterwards in the great world. But the foolish fellow threw away his chances. To use rather a vulgar phrase, he never took account of stock; and, when he might have had the best, he was quite as likely, through sheer ignorance, to choose the worst. Who were his friends? Before he had been two months at Neophogen he was inseparable, not with Buoy, in whom you or I would never have failed to recognize the coming man, nor with Sticker and Planter, but with Smith and Jones. Who were Smith...
...gambled fiercely till sheer want into his soul did stare...