Word: likely
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...gondola carries me down the Canal in silence, only broken by the cry of some gondolier, shooting out from the shadow into the Canal. He looks like some Charon in the gloomy light of the candles looming through the mist. Soon the hum of many voices breaks on me, and, turning a bend, I come on the Rialto, which is one mass of fire...
...pencil, but to illustrate for the sake or helping the imagination, or, what is worse, for the mere sake of advertising, is in most cases a miserable failure. I say in most cases, because a few novelists - Dickens, for example - have been so happy as to find artists, like Cruikshank, who can really help instead of hinder the story...
...have spoken of publishers. Of the guild of middle-men or retailers we would like to say, from experience, that buyers will find it to their advantage to proceed with extreme caution in making bargains, for among these men "the tricks that are vain" are as many and various as those of our friend in the poem...
...object of the DOG-FANCIERS' UNION can be inferred easily enough from its title. Several undergraduates, owners of valuable dogs, formed the plan of meeting and consulting together in regard to the feeding and management of their canines. We suppose questions like the following will be discussed: "Does the practice of holding a dog's mouth so that he cannot howl while being castigated for misdemeanor further the best interests of the dog?" "Is there any limit to a dog's capacity for eating...
...articles the writers of which show marked ability, and handle their subjects with considerable skill; and are obliged to refuse them, because they are written upon matters which we cannot, as a college organ, publish. It is no small trial for an editor to be compelled to consign articles like these to the oblivion of the waste-basket, which he does with a sigh of regret that talent should be so misapplied, at the expense of his columns, so hungry for copy. The most favorite subject seems to be "Popular Men"; and these rather indefinite creatures are made the objects...