Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Venus and red-lipped Mars."SOME queer subjects are worked into the editorials of college papers. The Princetonian has one on a circus that is coming their way. The College Argus turns itself into a Republican "organ" for the occasion, and grinds out six columns of wrath and words on the town elections...
Hereupon the T. F. was inclined to be wroth at not being recognized at once, but recollecting that the stranger could hardly be expected to detect the embryo Soph at a glance, he choked down his wrath, and calmly said...
Shall thrill my soul with more of joy or wrath...
...Sing the wrath Achilles nursed...
...strongest point appears when I try to give him a good sound scolding. He listens for a 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...