Word: sink
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...Then sink forever in thrice gloomy night...
...than personal qualifications in an election of officers for Class Day; but last Monday night both the unanimous selection of certain officers and the good-natured though eager strife over others showed a dominant desire to choose only the best men, irrespective of other considerations. For their willingness to sink all society feeling, and their desire to secure a fair and honorable election, not only the College but all friends of Harvard must thank the Class...
Vainly do I seek to sink...
...sink a victim...
...minute while my indignation is rising and my words are growing louder; but before my wrath boils over, he floods me with such a torrent of rich brogue, which I cannot understand, that I am left completely at his mercy. The faster he talks the lower my spirits sink. Being possessed of the advantage of being able to understand what I say, while my replies to him are made without the remotest idea of what I am answering, he has me at his mercy; and I sink exhausted into my armchair, while he chatters himself victoriously out of the door...