Word: out-of-the-way
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...wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever will be. The open bar is the chief instrument of this ring in the government of Boston. If a supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must be kept somewhere, as many people assure us, let if be in miserable out-of-the-way houses on the side streets, not in attractive palaces, on the highway. Then I can feel that when I send my boy on an errand he will not be tempted to stop at every corner to see what the brilliant lights and crowds of a saloon mean...
...courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seem imposing enough to satisfy the most confirmed specialists, furnishing, as they do, instruction in such out-of-the-way languages as Ethiopic, Phoenician, Pali, Gothic, Icelandic, Old Saxon, etc. There is however no course in Celtic. Is it not possible to have one at Harvard? A knowledge of old Welsh, Gaelic and Celtic is important for those who study mediaeval literature and seek to trace the origin of various myths and legends which have been woven into the romances of old French and German. Courses in the field suggested would...
...positive injustice to his fellow-students. Thoughtlessness has been made to serve as the mask for a multitude of sins in the past, but we now intend to give the true name to such actions, viz., inexcusable selfishness. He who collects a stack of books in an out-of-the-way corner is doing no more nor less than robbing his comrades of the privileges for which they...
...School department was in the line more of studies than of paintings with any prominent meaning. The visitor was amused at seeing in almost every third or fourth picture an old skull with high cheek bones; and, when the model itself was found in an out-of-the-way corner, it was like coming upon an old friend. The sculpture, of which there were several very good pieces on exhibition, was still not equal in excellency to the painting; but, of course, this is not surprising. The evening's entertainment on the side of art, as well as in every...
...CLASSICAL teacher in a neighboring academy having written about another as "Exiter," it was suggested that that was an out-of-the-way spelling...