Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There does not appear to be any likelihood of a contest for the two seats which, despite the parricidal attempt of Professor Bryce, are still allotted to the University of Oxford. The position of Sir J. Mowbray and Mr. Talbot is the most enviable that can be imagined. Not to be dictated to by a Caucus or Association, not to be compelled to make election speeches, or submit to unlimited 'heckling,' not to have to canvass the illiterate voter or the impracticable crotcheteer, not to have to open charitable bazaars, or preside at philanthropic meetings; in short to possess...
...think in was a Dangerous policy, sir...
...recite with their brother-students, and seem to have a peculiar propensity for leaving them in the dim and shadowy distance. The visitor has a strange sensation of unrest as he hears, while passing a recitation room, "Mr. Smith, account for this very strange construction." "Can't do it, sir;" and then hears Miss Jones say that it is an anacolouthon. No wonder, he thinks, that so many of our colleges reject co-education. They would soon find that it was the boys who were kept home to wash the dishes, and the girls who came to college to learn...
...recent lecture in the Law School the instructor remarked, "Now, Mr. H., we will consider the question you asked the other day." "I wasn't present the other day, sir," replied...
...rich and gallant Knight, Sir Sawney...