Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Freshman, on the entrance of the urbane investigators, bashfully retreated to his bedroom, whence he was dislodged with some difficulty. All admitted the meanness of the act, and several gentlemen could express the violence of their indignation only by the use of words which even sporting papers banish from their columns. Most of them had no doubt but that some Freshmen resident in the entry were the guilty men, but none had the faintest idea what Freshmen. A dignified impenetrability, in short, characterized their demeanor, and, although the act has since been several times repeated, the Juniors have been obliged...
...racy bit of writing, which quite demolishes the friends of science, whom it accuses of having "lifted up their heels against us and against science too. They have polluted the temple of God, they have sprinkled swine's blood in the Holy of Holies, they have tried to banish the Shekinah. Have they succeeded? Will they succeed...
...beggers in the metropolis, he was surely thinking more of those who appeal for charity in the streets than of those who haunt the doors of our lodgings. These latter are the ones who besiege us, and nuisances they are. If I could have my way I'd banish them all to Chelsea, - I can think of nothing worse. Some of the older ones in the business must have got rich by this time. Nobody knows how many Credit Mobilier shares they own. They are one of the drawbacks of student life, but we must submit to them...
Just a tipple to banish my gloom...
These Heliotypes will not meet with approbation from our chance visitors; these gentlemen will be much more likely to abuse us soundly for affectation. But if we sternly banish all lithographs from our rooms, in company with most chromos, and put these in their stead, we shall soon find an enjoyment before unknown to us in looking at these works of true...