Word: abandoning
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...myself utterly stupid and without the power of discrimination. I appreciate the straits in which editors are sometimes placed for copy, but I by no means believe that it would not be perfectly easy for these papers, if they tried to do so, and could persuade themselves to partially abandon their desperate attempts to be funny, to give their readers interesting and occasionally amusing articles - at least readable articles - and that, too, without falling back to the standard of pretentious heaviness of their Western exchanges. If they want models and examples let them look up certain of their own files...
...stated that the Czar is convinced that the Nihilists are to abandon their policy of assassination, and therefore the imperial clemency will be extended to prisoners...
...meeting of the Liberals at Mr. Gladstone's residence yesterday produced an excellent effect on the party. The Conservatives are discouraged, and there is no concealment of their desire that the House of Lords now abandon its attitude and give assurance that the inquiry will not interfere with the judicial operation of the land...
...suggestion that heliotypes be substituted for the usual class photographs is at least worth considering. How far practicable it is to abandon photographs we do not know. It would certainly be a less bulky and less expensive method of obtaining views of buildings and the various groups. We commend the plan to the attention of the Senior class...
...Henry looked about for the chained lions, and, seeing none, concluded that they were unchained, or else restricted in the dungeons beneath. He gazed in silent awe at a huge tablet, not able to decipher the rude inscription. "Al lnoti ceswi llbe rem o vedf rom." "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," he might have said, had he been a member of the Dante Society. Within the outer court of this castle was another flight of stone steps, winding up to a door marked 5, presumably in reference to the five dragons within, who were very terrible beings...