Word: losely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Annex will lose the chairman of its Academic Board, through Professor Byerly's contemplated trip to Europe next year...
...half a crown into the box at the door. Friday. Come back in the fly. N. B. You are to keep and exact account of your charges." The energy with which these short sentences succeed one another show how much Boswell was moved. And yet, he did not quite lose his head. "Study the mother," he says impressively, and "Keep an exact account of your charges...
...words no longer amuse us; they grow pitiful. It seems unkind to laugh at the lonely old fellow as he flits about his former haunts, only to find new faces and unkind greetings on every hand. We have laughed at his follies; now, when the folly begins to lose its mirth in sadness, we had best avert our eyes...
...very improbable that the Oxford-Cambridge race will be rowed over the usual course this year. Only two apertures are available in the Hammersmith bridge, and the boat which took the middle course would lose two or three lengths. It is proposed to row the race from Westminster to Putney, the course over which the race was rowed at the beginning of the contests...
...attended morning chapel, and seen the way in which it is taken by the students, will not be so harsh in his judgement. Running from bed to breakfast, and then to chapel, half awake, with a half learned lesson, is it surprising that a man under such circumstances should lose the religious significance of the duty? As a revielle, a police regulation to get men out of bed, it does us good service: as a purely religious exercise, we fancy very few would affirm that, as the fact stands now, it is honorable either to the students, or to their...