Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Upon this motion, the gentleman in the chair (Judge Hoar) will rise and say: 'It gives me uncommon pleasure to listen to the remarks and the motion of my friend on the left. The State, the college and the community owe him a debt of gratitude. It gives me pleasure to listen to the motion and the remarks, and I trust the proposition will meet with general approval...
Lacrosse, which we all left last spring in a supreme state of deadness, seems to show some signs of life, and it is no uncommon thing to see long, lean and lanky looking individuals parading our so-called campus, seeking for recruits. The freshmen, always anxious to identify themselves with something, it matters not what, fall an easy prey to these prowlers, and before long we may expect to hear of the budding Columbia College Lacrosse Team, warranted harmless and safe to lose as many goals as there are to be lost. Mass meetings will then be called...
...Must be manerfactered; can't be did in no other way. I'll be durned if here ain't a book by Enoch Arden. Who'd ever s'pose that Enoch would have took to writin'? but he always was uncommon smart at school. Figer! I never see a boy figer the way he could. Addishun and substracshun was nothin' to him, and as for gogaphy he could tell every cape from Cod to Hatteras in no time. But 't is surprisin' how he got to writin...
...your reputation) will be sure to twist your words into meanings which are equally new and acceptable to you. Above all, keep trying. There's nothing like it. Remember how Jacob wrestled with the angel. Do you in like manner wrestle with bon mots. Affect to read strange and uncommon books. Be unusual in your tastes. Be any thing rather than nothing. You must keep prominently before people's eyes at any cost; for so long as you are notorious there is some hope of your becoming famous. Above all, keep trying. You will sometimes feel like relaxing...