Word: rarely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inculcation of courtesy which belonged to the older type of gentlemen he has brought home in his successive visits here a lesson than which none is more needed in American life. The value of his teaching moreover has always been exemplified as well as enhanced by his own rare charm of manner and of utterance. Even although his instruction abides in memory we shall yet miss the inspiring example of the teacher. BENJAMIN RAND...
...Clark's fragment of "vers libre," "The Sea Nymph," we find a vagrant memory fixed in a present mood. The lines, except the second, are musical; Mr. Clark has secured his effect with rare economy of effort. The two sonnets by Mr. Norris, "An Old Story," and "Winter Sunrise," dealing with more clearly defined subjects, show more direct treatment. In form, they are slightly irregular, and suffer from a jerkiness due to the large proportion of end-stopped lines. But the description is good; and Mr. Norris is particularly felicitous in his closing lines...
...drawing by Vernet, an etching by Boissieu, and a rare book entitled "Tableaux de l'Histoire Romaine," have been given by Miss Simmons...
...this nothing remains except some ruined walls and heaps of cinders. The fire was so violent that not even the charred remains of large books could be found. The library contained more than 230,000 volumes, among which were 380 incunabula -- some of them very rare and beautiful examples. Nine hundred and twenty manuscripts, several of which figured an autobiography of Thomas a Kempis, have also disappeared. The library of Louvain contained the complete and unique collection of all the books and pamphlets published in the Austrian Low-Countries (Belgium) during the eighteenth century. It also possessed a collection...
There are two things these pests of the post-examination period overlook. First every mark near the honor of the danger line passes a strict censorship. No man is given D or E haphazardly. The instructor who tosses a coin to decide his mark is rare if not quite mythical...