Word: casually
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...morning of June 28 crowds from all parts of the country began to pour into New London. They came in yachts, ferry-boats, excursion steamers, wherries, cat-boats, and steam-launches; they came in railroad trains and carryalls; they came on foot and on horseback. Even the casual observer must have perceived that it was a great day for Connecticut and New London...
...could have anticipated such a result from casual observation of the two teams before the game. The Tufts men, though perhaps not as heavy as their opponents, were evidently older, and were a wiry set of men. While watching the progress of the game, however, it was easy to see the secret of our success: both sides had some very fine individual players; but the Tufts men did not play well together, while our men did great things by playing well into each other's hands in passing the ball...
...such an offence I once received a public admonition," remarked my visitor in a casual way. I ventured to express my surprise...
...disciples have profited by his instructions, takes the high-school way of making them commit to paper the knowledge which they have received from him during the past three months. But on the whole there is a sublime indifference to such petty annoyances; more, indeed, than a casual observer would suppose, for it is a sacred law handed down from all antiquity, that he who does not curse at an examination is a prig and a hypocrite. But this is all mere words, and but for the thought that five cents might be much better expended round the corner...
...Satires of Horace are the best possible picture of society in the last year of the Republic. It will be observed that in Latin 2 abundant opportunity for reading at sight will be given. This can be more judiciously practised under the teacher's immediate direction than at the casual option of the reciter...