Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...companionless as ever. "Why, O my chum," I groaned as I gazed at the gloomy window-panes of my room, "didst thou avail thyself of thy senioric privileges and betake thyself off for a week's respite from college duties?" and I leaned moodily against a tree. Of a sudden a cold puff of wind drew across the Yard, and, tinkle, tinkle, a sharp metallic sound struck my ear. I turned, and saw that I was standing near the college-pump, whose tin cup the breeze was rattling against the post. "Well said, wise counsellor," I murmured, "if man fail...
...hard it sometimes is to adapt one's self to sudden changes is shown by the following conversation which took place in one of the English electives...
SILENTLY the pale blue flames waved and danced over the surface of the coals, as, sitting late one wintry evening before the fire, I threw aside a volume of the "Demonology," and fell into a revery. On a sudden several taps at the door aroused me, and I remarked, "Come in." That the rapper came in was not to be wondered at (such a thing had happened before); but that he entered directly through the door without opening it certainly authorized some expression of astonishment. I raised my eyebrows and looked more closely at my visitor...
...East, and hope it may displace the mania for rowing and boat-racing extant there. We hope that the stubborn fact that a very large number of those who rowed in the renowned boat-clubs of England have been brought to untimely graves by heart-disease, resulting from too sudden and violent exertion, may yet have its just weight as to this portion of American physical education...
...time to talk, and begin diligently to roll up innumerable yards of ribbon that seem left under her rampart, the counter, for this very purpose. You may rarely take her off her guard, and she seems the same "yesterday, to-day," - but all of a sudden she is gone. You miss her again, - she is dead...