Word: soundingly
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...circled with stately dignity before my fair spectator. "How imposing this must be!" thought I. "What sentiments of admiration she must feel!" At that moment I was just opposite them. "Oh, how he cleaves the air!" It was her soft voice. How sweet! But what did I hear? The sound of their united laughter? Did they mock me? My blood curdled. I'd show them whether I could cleave the air. I could have cleft the earth to have plunged them both therein. My indignation breathed new energy into my wearied frame. A reckless, frenzy seized me. In rapid alternation...
...BURNING August afternoon on Lake Winnepesaukee, hardly a ripple stirred, no sound of life but the monotonous chirp-chirp from the woody shores, and the lapsing water-beats on the white sand...
...occurred. Stephen had complained of not feeling very well for several days, and on the evening in question he had started out, as he said, for a short walk, "to ??? me up a little." I had many times noted how nervous he had become. He started at any sudden sound, and often I had overheard him talking to himself. He had also complained of bad dreams; he certainly had been feverishly restless during these past few nights, and he had succeeded in infecting me with the same trouble. I knew that he was completely worn out, and I begged...
...pedantry before this, but it has at last invariably won just recognition. We are sorry that the Advocate has been so grossly misinformed as to the purposes of the New Shakspere Society and the conditions of Shakspere criticism at the present day. We fear that "common sense and sound scholarship" did not dictate its own remarks upon the subject...
...have with us," continued the chairman, "a distinguished senator from New York, who, I know, will address us in a speech replete with sound arguments. I call upon Mr. C-nkling." The senator then rose and said...