Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...receive us in their gloomy embrace. Did he not remember the blow, did he not remember Madelon? He shivered as a long howl rang like music in my ears, and murmured to himself that a cross-bow would not have been amiss; but still the wolves would seldom attack two, and if they did, a serf more or less made little difference, and while they were busy with me he could escape. But the change was coming, I felt it burning within me; and he started as he looked at my eyes, which I felt were slowly gaining the fiendish...
...literary monthlies seem to be universally reverenced by the "college press," and it is but seldom that an iconoclastic exchange editor dares to make the mildest criticism on them. When he does, they don't receive it with any more humility than any of the less pretentious papers would. For instance, the University Magazine said that poetry did not flourish at Princeton. It certainly does n't. The Princeton papers scarcely ever have any verses at all, and when they do they are very bad. The Nassau Lit. feels it necessary to make some reply, and does it by saying...
...preparation materially easier. It is useless to attempt to take time needed for term work or for recreation in order to prepare for examinations to come in two months, or even in one month. Under our system, work for examinations can hardly be begun more than two weeks beforehand; - seldom then, without neglecting something else, perhaps of more real importance. It was found necessary last year to place the electives in thirteen groups. We suggest that the order and dates of the examination groups be definitively settled and announced with the elective pamphlet. If then a man has three...
SCENE: LECTURE IN FINE ARTS. Prof. - The Italians retained the horizontal line, never running to verticality, I say never, hardl - (the section begins to snicker) well, seldom ever...