Word: form
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...looks for a veritable devil, with green eyes, crooked claws, and no end of a tail. In truth, however, he is met by a gentlemanly-looking person, with kid gloves, a cultivated intellect, and a manner that puts one immediately at ease. He may resist this unexpected and alluring form of temptation, and gain from the contest a strength of character which, owing to the circumstances we have already touched upon, is almost always accompanied by corresponding breadth; but it is not unlikely - judging from experience - that a style of conversation remarkable rather for its ingenious oaths and delicate doubles...
...party that the reporters find their formulae most useful. Here the subject is so simple, and the calls for such notices so frequent, that many of the largest journals have issued printed blanks to their reporters, simply requiring to be filled out in accordance with circumstances. Such a blank form generally reads somewhat as follows...
...first-class newspaper, with all the modern improvements, will also have a blank for fashionable weddings, just as convenient in its way as the marriage service, and with little but names to be supplied. Here different papers vary a little from each other; but the form in use by one of our prominent journals will serve very well as an example...
WERE the many queer things which have been left as transmittenda in the various rooms the College brought together, they would form an interesting and a motley group. Though perhaps they could not be arranged artistically, yet the ideas suggested by a look at the individual objects would be strangely contrasted...
...hands of the Goths and Vandals, namely, the College Carpenter, and a dealer in second-hand goods, who never leaves anything in a room the furniture of which he has purchased, but the paper on the wall. A short time ago almost every room possessed a transmittendum of some form. Of those made from parchment but a few can be found. It is alleged that some have been destroyed because the rooms have been injured in concealing them. As those who have damaged rooms are generally fined double the amount of the injury, it might be imagined that they...