Word: merestly
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...been provided, and that the rooms where the old fashioned article was set forth were extensively patronized. But, for all that, there was no disorderly conduct in the yard, and the stories that have been told of riotous conduct on the part of the future alumni were the merest fiction. Of course, the boys, both old and young, are always excessively jolly on these occasions, and sometimes their conduct wakes the echoes under the towering elms of the college yard; but they generally know and recognize the bounds of propriety, and keep within those limits. It is hoped that this...
...never quite got rid of. He began the study of medicine, as most young men do, with a quickened pulse at the sight of the grinning skeletons of the school, and with his cheeks reflecting the whiteness of the hospital sheets-sights which had since become the merest commonplace with...
...work was. Indeed, the first principles of metaphysics are so apparent from a consideration of this work that they may be considered as finally established." Professor Blowne "thrusts aside the evolution theory," and herein will doubtless please many (e. g. Dr. McCosh); but the rest certainly sounds like the merest pretension...
Imagine the professor examining another man; and thus disposing of him: "Memory, poor; mathematics, none; language, wanting; perspicacity, none; common-sense, the merest trifle. Why, upon my word, you are admirably prepared for the law school or the scientific school...
Then Smith came up, by merest chance...