Word: needless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spring suits, and, consequently, with upper left outside breast-pockets. It is not in cruelty, not in wrath, that I cull from Mr. Dwight's cerebral convolutions a few of the flowerets that grow between; they shall be transplanted to bloom in a superior flower-pot above, - it is needless to say that I refer to the Crimson...
...Oriental notions of property in women, and at the same time a highly objectionable tendency to free love. We are next informed that "the maiden's glance invites advance," and after being suffered to advance, we are requested to "drink bliss like sparkling wine," - sentences upon which comment is needless. And, finally, the veracity of all ladies is impugned in the lines...
...glorious carnival of free rum was immediately declared, the natural consequence of which was that all these estimable gentlemen got very drunk. Scarcely had we got to Sandy Hook before the prize director had informed the prize first officer (whom it is needless to say was also drunk), a discharged servant of Secretary Robeson, the burning and shining light of the Navy Department, that "he was a - (what you please), and did not understand his business"; which was true, but unpleasant. The other replied, in the chaste language of the forecastle, to the purport that then great director "lied under...
...recent base-ball match at Providence, has adopted an insulting tone which is almost unprecedented. Not satisfied with us attacks upon our Nine as a body, it has devoted nearly a column to direct personal insults to one of our principal players. The insult is so open, so needless, and so flagrant, that we should advise the members of the various sporting organizations of the college to decline to have any further dealings with Brown until a full apology has been offered...
...words in the interest of aesthetics, which would probably be excluded by the prejudices of a less enlightened periodical. My subject arises from the murders which have been committed recently in this neighborhood, and as I have already used the word "aesthetics" in regard to it, it is therefore needless to say that I am a disciple of De Quincey. I lay no claim to originality; my sole ambition is to raise a warning voice in defence of that art which derives its dignity, nay, its very birth from my great master. Surely you will sympathize with me in this...