Word: dictu
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...once, knocked a daisy-cutter to C. F., and reached first in safety; Bones rung in a two-baser; Cunners stole his base on three strikes; and Oranges, with a three-baser, brought all his "friends" home. Here the Harvards' success ended; the Borsair failed to make anything, (mirabile dictu!), and the score stood 3-0 in favor of the Harvards...
...watched the dancing, and wondered why somebody had not written upon "Dancing as a Revelation of Character," or upon the "Limit of the Diaphanous in Dress." I tried the diversion of repeating my fables for French 1, but - mirabile dictu - found no amusement in that. Were examinations anything but vexation of spirit? Should we ever be able to get "the maximum of knowledge with the minimum of grind"? Happy thought! Behold a royal road to learning! Let all your friends be grinds, - grinds pure, undefiled. Their brains, you know, when crammed for an examination, are only sponges dipped...
...mehercle! ut medicus in Paradisum intret, fieri non potest.' Ab imo pectore suspirans, 'Et ego, Petre Sancte, vehementer, vehementissime quidem doleo,' oculis respondeo lacrimantibus, 'iter longissimum confeci, defessissimus sum, quoeam nescio. Nihilo secius portas reclude, ut interiora Paradisi saltem aspectare possim.' Portis patefactis interiora tota magnificentissima video, et mirabile dictu! in medio Paradiso Doctorem B. conspicor. 'Quid ita, Petre Sancte,' stupefactus exclamo, 'ibi est Doctor B. ipsum, in propria persona video.' 'Doctor B.? ubi?' Petrus, pariter admiratus, exclamat, 'Ibi, ibi! nonne vides?' 'Huncce?' exclamat Petrus, tollens cachinnum, 'Aha! iste non est medicus...
Would be, for a woman, mirabile dictu...