Word: leniently
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...sacrilegious son of Belial, who suffered from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally himself to a comely, lenient and docile young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He accordingly purchased a calliope and a coral necklace of a chameleon hue, and securing a suite of rooms at a principal hotel, he engaged the head waiter as his conjutor. He then dispatched a letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy extant, inviting her to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent...
...test; and the longer a general quiescence delays this, the more Amherst is to be congratulated. The past has proved, however, that the senate is entirely practicable; the judgments, while few, have not been made hastily, nor to the detriment of the college; the senate has not proved more lenient than the faculty; the latter have been entirely satisfied with its workings; and the growing popularity of the plan at Amherst and at other colleges is a good omen for the success and an increase in the powers of the conference...
...excuse whatever may the hands be employed, except to touch the ball, when it passes behind the goal lines, to save or get a "rouge." Even the rules of the Association game, which may be described as a sort of compromise between all rules, are more lenient ; for by them the goal-keeper may in defence of his post make use of his hands in any way save in carrying the ball ; he may stop it with them, or hit it away. But in the Eton field even that last resource is denied ; even in the sorest straits...
...college men, as much for us as for any, because the trip takes in the whole period of the annual examinations. Nevertheless, the men at Princeton and Yale hope to get leave of absence, provided that they are chosen, and it seems probable that our faculty would be lenient in the matter. There are to be no games with professionals but only with gentlemen amateurs, so the 'powers' could have no far for the morla welfare...
...Scotland, instead of public schools there are parochial schools. The university is in a city where the students, poor, live by their wits, living scattered about as our freshmen are obliged to do. Instruction is given mainly in lectures, examinations are lenient...