Word: betrayed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...future if a more generous spirit is shown. It is true that differences of opinion must always exist as to the relative merits of our different papers, but if we are called upon to express those opinions, let us remember that the manner of our expression will often betray the spirit in which we write as clearly as any words...
...unrepealed law of New Jersey passed while the state was a British colony, reads as follows: "That all women of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows who shall, after this act, impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of his Majesty's subjects by virtue of scents, cosmetics, washes paints, artificial teeth, false hair or high heeled shoes, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors." - Princetonian...
...Nassau Literary Magazine, published by the senior class of Princeton College, is apparently edited at long range. The address of the gentleman whose name stands first on its editorial staff is-India. If the journal should ever be behind hand in matters of news or should betray an oriental bias in considering Western literature, its attitude would be sufficiently explained by this fact...
...course there is no real harm in an ordinary governor's mangling a quotation in this manner, but that one who aspired to a Harvard degree on the ground of his learning should thus betray himself is truly painful...
...less so than ever, since the universities have become the rendezvous of the proletariat that clamors first for bread and then for patriotic deeds. The name of student has become a by-word with the lower classes of Russia, and the St. Petersburg student must take care not to betray his calling in the street if he would be safe from occasional maltreatment at the hands of coach-drivers and laborers. Excluded as he is from good society, and confined to that of his associates, poverty-stricken, neglected, despised, he is yet fond of life and enterprise, proud...