Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...them, I was told, imagined, curiously enough, that good manners had died out at Yale, and that he was the Ghost of Manners! The other imagined himself the devil, and had on a sign, "The Devil is More often White than He is Painted." His capitals were peculiar, but the idea was good...
...their interest in her success should bring them forward. Those who have not yet rowed in a race might, by faithful training, acquire enough skill and experience to be eligible for the Crew by the end of the year, while those who have already rowed should consider the peculiar position in which we are placed, and lend their assistance. If any men intend to try at all, they should not put off training until the spring. That would be a risky experiment, as well as being unfair to those who go to work in the autumn. Three years of victory...
...Should cabinet officers be held responsible to Congress? 2. Is Tennyson's poetry likely to survive its own times? 3. Should the personal provisions of testators be respected? 4. Which has more influence on a nation's development, its great men, the original character of its race, or the peculiar circumstances of its climate, soil, and geographical situation...
...love-making will seem peculiar, even to readers of Miss Broughton. Take this for example, - start not, nervous reader; they are to be married in a few pages...
...second place the victory has a peculiar interest for Harvard because it is followed by the retirement of men who have long been associated in the Crew. That era in our boating annals which was marked by the class of Seventy-nine is ended. The man whose energy did much to bring the crimson three times to the front has severed his connection with the University. Our prospects are good while Captain Trimble remains in college; but probably it will be long before Harvard will again have three such crews in succession as those of the past three years. Harvard...