Word: unless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subscribed to Vol. II. are considered subscribers of Vol III., unless the editors are notified to the contrary...
...early recitations a severe penance after our enjoyment of domestic bliss the day before. It is well known that cold sharpens the temper and blunts the intellect, and we agree with the writer in thinking it would be well to have fires lighted in the furnaces Sunday afternoons, - unless, indeed, our janitors are deterred by religious scruples...
...remedying this defect will be seen by any one who considers the awkward situation of one who sits down to a night's work for a coming examination and finds himself suddenly deprived of light. The purchase of candles would be a serious expense, but we earnestly recommend it unless attention is paid to our remonstrances...
This quotation needs no comment. The technical, almost quibbling manner in which the classics are sometimes treated is in danger of running their study into the ground; and unless a man pursues his reading outside of the class-room, even a four years' election of classics will afford no general idea of this field of literature...
Poor thing! Her hands must have been rather full, unless, as is suggested by the text, she carried her rustic song in her basket. She finds the old man and disclaims weariness...