Word: amiss
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stretched out ghostly arms to meet us, to 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...
...mathematical, since to many men the understanding of mathematical science is an utter impossibility; or classical, since the time spent in Greek and Latin is wasted in the case of those whose studies are scientific rather than linguistic? But to no one can a thorough knowledge of English come amiss. In advocating a substitution of English for mathematics and classics in the Freshman year, we do not deny that by far the best method is complete freedom of choice, not only for three years, but for four...