Word: demurely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...also able to write perfect English himself and avoid all the defects and blemishes he has seen in another. No one will deny that our English department, taken as a whole, is conducted with ability - and understanding, yet no one can reasonably wonder if the members of a class demur at writing criticism after criticism, when they have been led to suppose, by the experience of the leading writers, past and present, that criticism is a secondary matter, and that the critical writer is by no means necessarily a respectable descriptive writer of any kind...
...Encyclopaedic writer, to whose learned dissertation on the game we have already owed our debt, does indeed make one statement to which we must venture to demur. Winchester and Harrow, he says, are "the chief exponents of the game wherein kicking alone is allowed as a means of propulsion." Eton "plays a hybrid game in two different ways, 'at the Wall' and 'in the Field,' the latter being a sort of mixture of both kinds of play." Mother Eton has been a good deal harried and mocked in these latter times, poor thing ! But surely so baseless an imputation...