Word: shrine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...class-books now are very incomplete and unsatisfactory indeed; with less attempt more could be really done. With a small class the old system worked fairly well, with the classes of to-day it is effete and absurd; yet each class will knock its knees before this antediluvian shrine until the uselessness of the system has been demonstrated again and again. Really the men whose class lives would be most apt to be looked up are the very men who treat the Class Secretary to three lines, or return the immaculate sheets free from hieroglyphics but somewhat the victims...
...shrine mystic garlands...
...crackers. The scheme is second only to the Everlasting Club of the Spectator. We take upon us, in the absence of historical evidence, to vouch for the constancy of Mr. Angier's friends. No better goal of pilgrimage for a graduate of convivial turn can be imagined. The shrine is gone; but the flavor of a transcendent hospitality will always pervade...
Rich and precious and fair its shrine...
Gray its arches, and seared its shrine...