Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that a man is about to perish in a volcano, this objection is perhaps a good one. Certain it is that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, no one would stop to quote Homer and Horace while the lava was rising. But this is the hundredth case, the solitary exception to the general run. And herein lies the merit of the story. All the details...
After some discussion upon certain rules of procedure, the meeting adjourned at ten o'clock...
...Certain English authors considered as Masters of Style. Course for Freshmen. Special subject: John Dryden. Prof. A. S. Hill, Sever...
There is a large amount of elastic tissue in the lungs, so that by virtue of their elasticity they can expel a large part of the air which they contain when inflated. A certain amount, however, always remains. As the heart is enclosed in a sort of sack called the pericardium, so are the lungs enclosed in a sack, the pleura, the inner part of which passes over the outside of the lungs and the outer part lines the inside of the chest. In health there is nothing between these two surfaces but a little moisture which helps them...
...Yale News shows that the college has hopes of winning the Mott Haven cup next spring. "The following statement in regard to the number of winners of first or second place in the inter-collegiate games last year, who are undergraduates at Yale and Harvard will to a certain extent make plain the chance each college has of winning the cup next spring. There is a reasonable probability that a winner last year, if still qualified to enter, will also be successful this year...