"Sophomore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the participle—bored. I have seen a country-clergyman, with a one-story intellect and a one-horse vocabulary, who has consumed his valuable time (and mine) freely, in developing an opinion of a brother-minister's discourse which would have been abundantly characterized by a peach-down-lipped sophomore in the one word—slow. Let us discriminate, and be shy of absolute proscription. I am omniverbivorous by nature and training. Passing by such words as are poisonous, I can swallow most others, and chew such as I ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various
... was stern, "You must set this matter right; What time did the Sophomore leave, Who sent in ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles
... rapidly, not heeding him: "Ah, you needn't howl; I'd have been as much use at right as that Sophomore. Well, laugh away, you Indians! If it hadn't been for this ankle—but it seems to be my chest that's hurt—and side—not that it matters, you know; the Sophomore's just as good, or better. It's only my egotism. ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington
... much-vaunted book, by a young American, but one in which we take no pleasure. In the first place, it is written in a most execrable style,—all affectation, and verbal wriggling and twisting for the sake of originality. The veriest sophomore ought to be "rusticated" for such conceited phrases as "beautiful budburstiness of bosom,"—"her twin eyes shone forth liquidly lustrous"—and innumerable expressions in the same namby-pamby dialect. But dellacruscan ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various |
