Word: certain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lounge in my room, which is in the southwest corner of Hollis, I was enjoying one of Tom's best cigars, when I heard his voice beneath my window. I jumped up, thinking he had called me: but saw that he was merely enjoying a promenade with a certain Miss Margie Gray, whom I had met at his home...
...subjects connected with our study. Notes on this outside reading would be so much more available knowledge, so much more experience of men and books. What, then, would be the harm of employing note-books in examination? For my part I see none. To be sure there are certain studies, especially dependent upon the memory; of these I say nothing. But in the generality of literary studies, in the classics, in language, in history, would there not be a great encouragement to pursue outside work if the student could make use of it at his examinations without the tedious process...
...woods in this region are singularly destitute of game; but reindeer and bears are sometimes seen. One great discomfort are the flies, which one can only escape by anointing the face and wearing gloves; although some keep them off by smoking all day. Salmon fishing is to a certain degree deteriorating on account of the advance of saw-mills and civilization; but there is still plenty of sport left for those who will go far enough north...
...quote the language of one of our leading journals, "a drill-sergeant was a man of distinction." Not that we desire to make the United States one vast garrison like Prussia, or get into the habit of picking international quarrels unnecessarily; but all our experience tells us that a certain amount of preparation is nothing more than prudence, and that it is a poor policy to allow our military knowledge to fall to so low an ebb that a war is rendered longer and more bloody by the inadequate provision to meet...
...urged that it perpetuates the memory of the late war, and thus tends to foster a certain spirit of hostility between two large sections of the country. Do not histories perpetuate the memory of the war to a still greater extent? Why not burn them up? Why not destroy all the records of the war, for the same reason? This principle, if carried to its natural result, demands their destruction...