Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from science. The Olympic games were suppressed by an imperial decree. Manly exercises, the festivals of the seasons, mirthful pastimes and health-giving sports were discouraged as unworthy of a holy person. The crusade against the body, which consisted in wreaking all sorts of cruelties and degradations on the wondrous physical constitution, to the end of freeing the spirit from the pressure of its material fetters, reached later on a painful degree of madness, of which the case of Archbishop Becket gives a most disgusting illustration. When the corpse of this prelate was stripped, the whole body down...
...presence of God in humanity, the perfection of humanity in God. The divine made human, the human proves to be capable of union with the divine. The utterances, therefore, of the nearness and the love of God, and of the possibility of man. Once in the ages came the wondrous life, but what life made manifest had been forever there. The love of God, the possibility of man. These two which made the Christhood - these two - not two but one - had been the elements in which all life was lived, all knowledge known, all growth attained. Oh! how little...
...Miss Braislin, the Professor of Mathematics. The costumes were Japanese, with the exception of that of Latisha, which was classical. The Mathematikado wore a black robe of angular cut, embellished with geometrical figures in white; Trig Trig on the contrary was a pretty young girl in white, with wondrous problems pictured on her dress in black lines and figures; Ayty Ayt was an interesting and susceptible young man; and Bot Ah Nee wore a gown embroidered with a remarkable collection of vegetables, ferns, roots and flowers...
...ever link'd with wondrous sweetness rare...
...that morning - to join in the grateful pursuit. The dining hall in question will admit of six hundred students all thirsting for knowledge, eating roast beef at the same time. There is a gallery at one end of the hall for carious strangers to survey the wondrous plan; but we got so hungry with watching these youngsters that we did not remain long. Possibly the stealthy creep of prejudice over our judgments may have been the cause of our verdict; but we certainly arrived at the conclusion that our English boys at "Trinity" and "Jesus," in the fenlands...