Word: processes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good English too. I learned from him that all I had to do was to prove myself a foreigner, which was easily accomplished by showing my passport, and that then I should have no further difficulty. He kindly gave me also some information as to the details of the process of matriculation and then dismissed me, wishing me success in my undertaking...
...only have the faculty of assimilation, of selection and arrangement. If they acquire what little knowledge they have in this informal and easy manner, shall we blame our Western friend for not attempting the more difficult road to wisdom? Shall we not require the Easterner to apply his ingenious process of assimilation to the acquirement of Western virtues...
Just then I saw an old man showing some invention of his in a corner of the room. "That is Fourth Dimension, our greatest philosopher. He is the inventor of the process by which a wooden box may be turned inside out. He is showing his latest discovery." I approached him to see the novelty, when behold! it was my mathematical motor! "Thief," I cried, "that invention is mine! "Snatching it from his hand, I was about to hide it from the spectators, when it started off, and, taking me with it, suddenly landed me unhurt at home...
Ballads should be written down literally as they are recited; with as little interruption as possible during the process of recitation; without any sort of attempt, then or afterwards, to make better sense, or any sense, better rhyme or any rhyme; without altering the arrangement, though it may appear to be wrong, and without the slightest addition on the part of the collector. The collector must also be careful not to push leading questions so far - in case what is delivered is unintelligible or fragmentary - as to vitiate the spontaneous operation of memory, I mean, make the reciter fancy that...
...probable that but few persons are acquainted with the mechanical process by which verses are made. Yet the process is simple enough, and may be confidently attempted by any one possessing a fair amount of intelligence and a pocket dictionary, with the firm expectation of rivalling the flower (I might almost say the daisy) of Harvard poetry...