Word: showness
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...upon which you stand at once submerges itself about three feet underneath the water, while the other raises itself aloft threateningly. Remembering your childish experience in see-saw, you make a rush up the log toward the middle. Arrived there you breathe a sigh of relief, for the unexpected show of vivacity on the part of such an apparently stolid mass has startled you not a little. For a moment you remain perfectly still; then suddenly, and without any manifest reason, the fiendish creature begins to revolve rapidly. You follow your natural instinct and keep your feet moving...
...never do so now; methinks you show...
...always had a reputation for brilliant scholarship in the Classics. A larger number of Second-Year Honors were taken by its members than had ever been taken before, and no succeeding class has equalled it in this respect. Naturally it was expected that 81's Commencement programme would show a long list of Honors, and a number of Highest Honors assigned. But now the announcement is made, that but one man in the class has received the certificate of Honors of the highest grade. It seems strange that there should have been such a falling off in scholarship as this...
...think it would be very difficult to find two more painfully proper young men than Will and I; but there were the two charming damsels right within arm's reach, as it were; and not to show some recognition of the fact seemed like flying in the very face of Fate. We are both naturally very modest, and not at all given to making advances to strangers, particularly to strangers of the gentler sort, but it seemed to be a clear case of foreordination, and we meekly acquiesced...
...that he was a man of very great culture. He certainly had a capital finish about him; it looked very much as if put on with sandpaper and oil. And no man had a better claim to general polish, for he needed only to remove his hat to show...