Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...they fail is in running the wickets. This has at times been fearfully slack and hesitating, and has given them many a needless out. The only way in which this can be remedied is to persuade enough men to practise on Jarvis to play a regular game, and to keep scores. It is to be hoped that this will be done at once, that our cricketers may be seconded in their efforts to make the game a popular one here...
There are three religious organizations among us, which hold precisely the position of churches in the outside world. There is, first, the Christian Brethren. This society was organized in 1802. It corresponds to a Baptist or Congregationalist church. It was founded to keep alive the fund-mental ideas of Evangelical Christianity, just as one of those churches. It requires assent to the common Evangelical doctrines for admission to regular membership, but invites all students to its meetings. These are characterized by the same spirit that may be felt in any Evangelical prayer-meeting, and have been very recently commended...
Ever a constant vigil we 'll keep...
...Every tax is so contributed as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the room occupants as little as possible over and above what it brings into the contribution-box of the room...
...cent of the words was of Anglo-Saxon origin, three and a half was Western slang, while but one and a half per cent was Latin or Greek! He was proclaimed the people's poet, and, for a time, all went well: but he had climbed too high to keep his position; it began to be thought that Homer was, after all, not likely to be rivalled by Joaquin Miller, and that Shakespeare was a better poet, even if he did use longer words. Socially, too, he was no longer successful; he was hardly conventional enough, even for a poet...