Word: detective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Hereupon the T. F. was inclined to be wroth at not being recognized at once, but recollecting that the stranger could hardly be expected to detect the embryo Soph at a glance, he choked down his wrath, and calmly said...
...month, and he wears a uniform-Foreigners are always puzzled to see the connection between university learning and a uniform. But this mystery is explained by the fact that the students are civilly and criminally under the jurisdiction of the University Board. The uniform serves, then, to detect the evil-doers in case of mischief done. The students are ungrateful enough not to appreciate the beauties of this system, and the result is constant conflict with the authorities...
...detect any of the political, ethical, or philosophical opinions of Shakespeare in the utterances of his characters or the construction of his plots...
...fortune to meet a man who tries to impress on others his familiarity with every topic under discussion? If such has never been the reader's fortune, he cannot have a very wide acquaintance in college, for there are shoals of men of this description here. One cannot detect them by their walk or their dress, but they betray themselves by their conversation...
...something should be said in defence of that much-maligned creature the proctor. The violent censure and scathing sarcasm that have been hurled upon his defenceless head for weeks past have entirely destroyed his nervous system. He has grown prematurely old. I dare say that a close observer could detect a few straggling gray hairs in his head. No more do we hear the sound of the "squeaking boots" ; his manly tread is silenced. 'T is pitiful to see him moping on the corners with his brothers, or sitting with his face buried in his hands, heaving now and then...