Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Williams Vidette gives an exciting account of the hair-breath escape of two Sophomores, who were almost caught by the Prex. while smoking. All boarding-school boys will sympathize with them. We advise Williams students who use the weed to read Mr. Dick Swiveller, on the modes of escaping detection...
...fairy realms seem almost in our touch...
...eminent lawyers are noted for their powers of recollection. The desirability of this faculty is, indeed, so evident, that it hardly requires illustration from the cases of physicians, preachers, and literary men. I cannot forbear, however, a passing allusion to the case of Sir Walter Scott, whose wonderful and almost unbounded memory, more than any other quality, was the foundation of his fame and success as an historical novelist...
...ready writing." Indeed, everybody seems to be so busy nowadays that one cannot but be reluctant to bring forward any pursuit or study that is not itself saving of time; but this is just what shorthand is, and a year's uninterrupted practice of an hour a day is almost certain to furnish the ability to write upwards of a hundred words a minute, or thrice as fast as long-hand writing. So important is the system considered abroad, that stenography is taught in all the private schools of Germany, and attempts have been made to introduce it in this...
...same subject. In Durer's engraving everything is plain and clear. St. Jerome sits in his study, which is flooded with morning sunlight. Rembrandt gives us St. Jerome in a study which we are tempted to think partly underground. He is meditating, and the shades of twilight almost hide him from our sight. Behind him, by dint of repeated efforts, we discover a dingy stone staircase, which either goes up into a dark entry or ends at a door...