Word: cutting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...sorry to see that slips are cut from the files in the Reading-Room. It is annoying in looking for an article to find that it has been cut...
...here let our indictment rest. Completeness might require us to make it longer, but brevity demands that we make haste to cut it short...
...Yard of friends who for years had not felt the strength of one another's arms, and upon the rather noisy demonstration of whose emotions the partial proctor gazed without a thought of publics or of suspensions, but with a sigh that by his unnatural employment he had cut himself adrift from all who had any right to fall upon his neck and greet him - hic - dear old fellow; the same old dinner-procession, whose dignified, slow-moving head gave no indication of the riotous life displayed by its swaying tail; and finally, the ancient scholar was there, who every...
Coiffure a le condamne is Amherst French for a fighting-cut...
Hatim Tai, the Oriental exemplar of sympathy and self-sacrifice, one day happened upon a wolf pursuing a doe, and, unwilling to allow the wolf to go hungry, though wishing to save his prey from his jaws, Hatim cut a slice from his own thigh to satisfy the appetite of the beast...