Word: wingless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interpretation of class loyalism has ceased to be slaughter and death to those unfortunates who date their graduation in subsequent years; university lords of one term's standing have ceased to regard classless refugees of no standing whatever, as the legitimate victims of their varied and erratic humours. The wingless elements no longer look upon the winged with irreverence, prejudice and hatred, but rather behold in their lofty flight the prospects of their own high, glorious career. In short, "comme il faut." The sooner will all fly when those who can become an inspiration, not an aversion to those...
...taken, but in a course which is so given up to independent research and individual work as English VIII, the criticism must be considered as slightly hypercritical. If Byron was a brute, we want to know it just as distinctly as to know whether Wordsworth was after all a wingless angel. Yet, it is true that the rehearsal of personal memories at times grows to be tiresome garrulity. If some golden mean could be found some way by which we could all study that portion of a writer's life and works which would exactly meet the wishes...