Word: forsooth
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...chief one with instructors, is that scholarships could not be assigned. It is a delicate matter to tell a student that he is unfit for a scholarship when his rank is not based on definite marks. In other words, a false and injurious method is to be maintained, because, forsooth, instructors are afraid to speak the truth unless it is shielded in a specious disguise. It is strange that they do not see that it is all the same, whether they tell a student outright, or mark him and then tell him. However, special examinations for scholarships might be instituted...
...candidates were balloted for: one was a Pudding man, the other was not. Was it, then, necessary for a person who belonged to a division of the class outside the Pudding to vote for a Pudding candidate when he was not voting for one of his own candidates, lest, forsooth, he should be a guilty partner in a coalition? The Advocate or advocates have somewhat stupidly overlooked the reductio of their own reasoning: for, since there were but two sets of candidates, and the balloting throughout was pretty close, if one body of men voted constantly...
...better, forsooth, had we two never...
...argument employed in the poorest grade of Western journalism: "If it was n't just for the name of the thing, I'd rather a man with a clean mouth would spit in my face than endure the foul breath of a smoker. . . . . A fine gentleman I would be, forsooth, to spit in your face; but if I've a good stomach and a tooth-brush, it's a deal cleaner than the breath from your beslimed mouth. . . . . A young lady said she would always live single and clean, rather than embrace the stench of the narcotic abomination." But enough...