Word: outright
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...singles is a solid silver pitcher, beautifully chased, and worth over $150. This will be known as the "New England Championship Prize," and must be won three times, not necessarily consecutively, to become the property of any one. In addition to this, the winner will receive a silver bowl outright. The second prize in the singles will be an antique toddy kettle on a crane. The prizes in the doubles will be cut glass punch bowls in cases. The tournament will be conducted under the rules of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association...
...residuary legatee and will receive $75,000, and the local public library will have $30,000 on the death of Mr. Merrick's aunt, Mrs, A. D, Briggs, who is to have the income of that sum during her life. Thirty thousand dollars in real estate is given outright to the Springfield Home for Friendless Women and Children, and $15,000 more on the death of another beneficiary. Five thousand dollars goes to Harvard College to be used in assisting worthy students, descendants of the class of 1870, to which the testator belonged, being preferred...
John Boyle O'Reilly, Robert Grant, "J. S. of Dale," John T. Wheelwright and George Parsons Lathrop, it is reported, are going to write a novel together, and they have already sold it outright for $5000. Three of this galaxy of authors are recent graduates of Harvard...
...preparing for Harvard, in the school at Athens. The project has aroused much interest in the English press, who watch all proceedings with a jealous eye. The Academy has even flattered the school by a report that already pound20,000 are in its hands, which it proposes to spend outright for buildings and a library. If the school does not receive its full complement of members from the associated colleges, others, who are competent and who are willing to pay their own expenses, will be received...
...laugh'd outright - I had little fear...