Word: neither
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...certain number of children, who are supported by the rent of lands belonging to the school; by this means the blue-coat boy is saved from the conceited snobbishness of the Etonians and the servility of those whom he would opprobriously call chizzywags. This honorable dependence, which can neither lessen self-respect nor increase self-conceit, makes the school thoroughly republican in custom and feeling, the only aristocracy being that of talent and good-fellowship, so that even when the sons of a gentleman and his coachman were school-fellows, the same respect was extended to both. Besides this...
...Neither the words "misfortune" nor "fate" seem to apply to that condition of positive evil which the tendency of the age to extravagance and luxurious living has brought about. The "form and pressure of the times" have not been subdued to their proper confines, but have been allowed to increase and swell beyond proportion, and with these neither "fate" nor "misfortune" has had anything to do. The records of the past week have made known a heavy embezzlement by the cashier of the Treasury Department of the State of New York, amounting to $ 300,000, developing a system of fraud...
...neither great nor fair...
...want in marked contrast to the privileges of some other colleges. But to the surprise of all, before the Reading-Room had completed a year of its existence, the interest in it seemed to wane, and much dissatisfaction was expressed about it. The established regulations, which were neither unnecessary nor onerous, were not conformed to; many valuable and popular periodicals which had been taken for months ceased to appear; and it really seemed as if the attempt to place Harvard on a level with other colleges in this respect was to become a failure...
...pervaded throughout, in short, by the particular weakness inherent in the author, which has been all along suppressed by whole-some criticism, or the fear of it, only to break out when the strength of his reputation renders him superior to the reviewers. But Kenelm Chillingly shows neither of these faults. It has all the vigor and novelty of a first attempt, and all the gracefulness and ease which only come after the writing of many books. In its hero Bulwer seems to be thoroughly at home, taking as much delight in him as any reader will do, and through...