Word: gainst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gainst the Faculty, let not a word be said...
...Shame Yes, an would ye believe it? I hear as how one uv the hathen at the University has been making dir-rty remar-rks 'gainst His Holiness. He said he never knew fwhat a papal bull was until he laid eyes on the Cardinal...
...midst of daydreams. What perturbers of the sprit these winged devils are! More rumors still, though less distinct, of other changes to be wrought, more parvenu intruders in the moss-grown ranks. They come, these leser rumors, to confirm the growing strife of mind that sets on to rebellion 'gainst the whole regime of change. For alas! the habits of three hundred years are not with ease to be cast off, like cobweb fancies...