Word: bring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regard to the admission of its students. He also considered, as in the English civil service, not only the learning of the candidate, but his character and antecedents, should be inquired into. This of course means that every person presenting himself to the bar for examination be required to bring a certificate of good moral character...
...contestants than during the past. It is idle to expect good time or interesting races as long as the present system is continued. The same men, at every meeting, carry off the prizes with little exertion, while in every race a line of dispirited stragglers, few and far between, bring up the rear. Some change ought to be made immediately, so that every one may have fair warning of what will be expected...
...into two parts. On one side of the river they placed all the men, and upon the other side all the women. Munnee then took his place among the women, and Boshor among the men. At the end of a year the miraculous power of Boshor enabled her to bring forth as many female children as there were men, while the commerce of Munnee and the women produced an equal number of males. When these demigods were fully grown, Munnee placed a treasure in the hands of each woman, and thereby induced his sons to murder their mothers. Boshor...
...severed immediately our connection with the Association, we should ourselves have felt satisfied that we were perfectly justified in our action; but as the general public would never have properly understood our motives, it is as well, perhaps, that we took a course which will not bring adverse criticism upon the College. Looking at the matter in this light, we should be grateful to the graduates for what they have done...
...cannot keep warm when there is not a "mite" of snow on the ground. Are you not ashamed of yourselves when you see these moonlight nights - in January, let me remind you - going by without the enjoyment of a single sleigh-ride, or anything else which winter should bring...