Word: unless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...usage, even though a mischievous one; and doubly so when its abandonment may seem due to lack of spirit. This instinct is strongest where experience is least; and young men can hardly be expected to resolve not to do what their predecessors for generations have done, unless they receive in this course encouragement and support from the emphatic counsels and warnings of those whose opinions and advice they have learned to respect and follow...
What they say is a secret, unless you should scan...
...Unless I share them; yet my lips are sealed...
...ball may be caught on the bounce and carried; the player so carrying the ball may be "tackled" or "shouldered," but not hacked, throttled, or pommelled. No player may be held unless in actual possession of the ball...
...lawful to take the ball from off the ground for any purpose whatever, unless it be in touch...