Word: deduction
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College deduct from the rent of each room an amount equal to that paid the goody for keeping it in order. Then let the occupant of each room hire a goody on his own account, to be paid by himself, and whom he may dismiss if her duties are neglected...
...infliction of pain; cruelty, in this sense, is not always avoidable. For instance, in that admirable and truly Gothic bit of art related by De Quincey, - the killing of the baker, - no inconsiderable amount of distress was put upon the subject of the murder; and yet would Pity itself deduct one atom of it? It was all necessary to the faithful carrying-out of the artist's conception. So, also, where death is produced by fear (I am informed that this, though a difficult, is not an impossible method for a master-hand); and other instances are easily imagined...