Word: labour
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lent out and Mr. Hollis's last donation, were demolished, the whole apparatus. Mrs. Hancock who lodgd out on account of the storm lost everything except the cloths she had on, this is a most terrible accident, this Library in which were so many valuable Books ancient manuscripts, the Labour of the Learned, and the work of ages, in a few hours turned to ashes. Our College is now poorer than any on the Continent - we are all real mourners on this occasion and I doubt not your attachment to alma mater will make you feel sorrowful upon this conflagration...
...that they offend no oftener than do their English cousins. Good, or what are called good, English writers say "different than," for which there appears no authority in either etymology or syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever modifications in English orthography have been the result of a desire to expunge useless letters. The Englishman replies that in these cases we destroy all trace of the origin of the word. But "favor," "labor" and "honor" are pure Latin, and the insertion of the letter...