Word: rebuff
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This fall's lesson is, then, not a rebuff, bitter though its, disappointment has been. On the contrary, it should encourage perseverance. If we have the heart to stick to it, with dogged energy and conservatism, ultimate success is inevitable...
...instance cited by the negative, that England had successfully floated paper legal tender, and pointed out the danger, under the present system, of persuading the public that a government can create money. He then showed that the present notes are not actually redeemable, and quoted as an example a rebuff experienced by a Baltimore company trying to redeem notes at Washington...
Certain base-ball worthies at Harvard have met with a rebuff. When these fierce old ladies in boys' clothing invited Yale to join them in their little scheme for monopolizing public interest in college games, they received a courteous slap in the face, which, we trust, will have a beneficial effect. Such a scheme is all very nice and select, but it savors much more of the tea-pot than the open field. There is something melancholy yet comic in this endeavor to exclude from direct competition such a college as Columbia, for instance, whose agile nine are the present...
...heavy odds: an old fur cap and a bright red scarf, over a short round-jacket; hands without mittens, that he kept in his pockets as well as he could. The boy made slow progress, being beaten back by sudden gusts of wind and snow; slowly gaining after each rebuff of this sort, he at last reached the store. His hands were by this time so benumbed that he could not turn the doorknob; so he stood outside and looked through the glass into the warm room, rapping once or twice to draw the attention of its inmates...
...only met rebuff...