Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...publish in another column a list of students' letters remaining in the office. The postman urges the necessity of sending in addresses immediately, in order to insure prompt delivery of mail; unless students do this, they have no right to complain that their mail fails to reach them...
Term-bills did not meet with prompt payment on all occasions; the money forwarded by the fond parent "was often spent on wine parties, gambling, or immoralities still worse, and in defiance of the law," and as the Athenians had not discovered the device of requiring a bond, the bursars of those days threatened in vain...
...bench he begins, and then (with his hands in his coat-tail pockets) he keeps on in a very measured and confident tone, pausing for breath between each word. He makes translating Latin at sight his specialty. We all know, too, the man who parades his knowledge by prompting you at a place which you know fully as well as he does. He is only a little less provoking than the man who will not prompt you when you want...
DEAR SIR, - The battered mediaeval walls of this historic city would prompt me to write of bygone internecine struggles, rather than of the peaceful athletic contests of modern times, were my interest in those contests one jot less keen. Having lived for many years at a distance from the scenes of action, should any misstatement offend my readers, I apologize beforehand, attributing it to my precarious sources of information. However, I have to deal with principles rather than facts...
...Prompt delivery of coal will be made only when payment has been made at the time of ordering...