Word: inched
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Norwich paper, in talking of the course on the Thames, says, that in the latter part of the afternoon there are seldom more than ripples of an inch high, and often it is perfectly calm; but what is meant by the words "ripples" and "seldom" and "often calm" it is hard to say, unless the writer himself has rowed there in a light boat...
...often taken for granted. Preachers of the Christian religion are so apt to make use of arguments addressed to the feelings rather than to the will, that the infatuated disciples of the new theory forget that the "theologians," bigoted though they may be, stand upon ground every inch of which has been tried and proved by men who paid regard, not to the feelings, but to that which they honestly thought to be right...
...blind man: O blind man:"-"Ah:"-"Here's richness! here's oiliness!"-"O, some of these Unitarian Radicals are noble liars."-"The Rev. Mr. Bartol can be dogmatic as any mighty fierce little lamb."-"Was Jesus a sneak?"-"Now, dear sir, don't measure Jesus by your twelve-inch rule."-"O my! O my! you big fool!" In another part of the paper it is stated that the Madisonensis seeks occasionally to remove blemishes by kind and wholesome criticism. One would think...
...sold only by the Curator, and not by him for purposes of future sale. This sale, however, is not limited to undergraduates; any person can obtain the prints by application at the Curator's room in the Library. The prices are essentially as named in your article; prints six inches by eight costing about twenty cents, larger ones in somewhat less proportion per square inch...