Word: certain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which would win, the Professor or Reid, we might have kept awake voluntarily; but even that feeble excitement was denied us. Dread of an examination was all that kept us from going to sleep. And the dread was fully justified by the examination when it came: "In a certain case, what is the defence advocated by Reid and Stewart, and what are Hamilton's objections to it, - explaining, also, his defence?" "Give in full the rules of the P. R." Six questions like these were certainly enough for one hour. Happy he who could draw, who understood perspective and foreshortening...
...Wood made his first appearance in Boston as Julian Gray, who, partly from Mr. Collins's design, but more from Mr. Wood's conception of dress and rendering, is a most curious personage. Though his acting is easy and natural, and many times effective, yet a certain heart-rending tone and Heep-like management of the hands leave behind a bad flavor, however slight. The Globe has always been noted for its elegant scenery, but it has produced nothing finer than the setting and appointments of this interesting play...
Every one begins life with a certain capital, to last through life; some have more, some less, but all have their individual stock in trade; the quicker it is disposed of, the sooner one finds himself bankrupt in mind and body, and, what is of more importance, without the means of recovery...
...brilliancy. Though this criticism is to a large extent just, there is one matter in which our great metropolitan journals need to look to themselves. It is indeed a fault which is exceedingly prevalent in the highest class of our newspapers. I refer to the continual use of certain words and phrases, perhaps rather expressive originally, but which have been fairly worn out by indiscriminate and excessive use on all possible occasions...
...will enter a certain room in Hollis and take for my centre-piece a life-sized picture of a "Goody" holding in one hand a broom, emblematical of her occupation; around her a great many names are written, not to indicate that these are the names of so many chivalrous knights ready to do battle for the "fair maid," but simply to denote who the occupants of the room have been since 1815, or thereabouts, if we are correctly informed...