Word: astray
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...assistant shepherds closed the gates as well as they could, but they left some holes under the fence, and the wolf was not to be kept out. The devil in the shape of Mr. Voliva's doctrines had to be driven from the sheep before it led them hopelessly astray...
...advent of this latter day rests largely upon the success of the tutorial system in the scientific departments which have already adopted it. But the Chemistry Department, which must be giving the system serious thought, since it is the only science still astray for the fold, may not wait for instantaneous success elsewhere to make its own decision. The change of the Biology Department went into effect only this fall, yet the Department of Geology announced its change to the tutorial system on March 22, when conclusive data on the result in biology of the experiment could scarcely have been...
...masses are quite incapable of forming their own minds, much less of choosing men. . . . Where 100 persons gather, they are fatally led astray by two or three demagogues...
...wants to lead a girl astray, he tries to get liquor into her so that she loses her senses and self-respect...
...cannot suppress his northern inclinations, his preference for Denmark rather than Italy; and artist though he may be by profession, and may feel himself to be-his closest friend tells him that at the bottom of his heart he is not an artist-but a bourgeois gone astray. It is a hard judgement, but he accepts it and its consequences...