Word: wording
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MANY a word of deep and mystic meaning...
EDITOR MAGENTA: "Percy Starke" sends this ingenious Chess puzzle, found pasted on the back of an old Chess Book. By beginning at the right word, and going from square to square as a Knight moves, he found eight lines of poetry...
...generally admitted that a class of persons exists in this University - and presumably in others - whose characteristics may best be indicated by the term scrub. The word is in every mouth, but the variety of senses in which it is used is truly remarkable. One man says that every one who is not a gentleman is a scrub; his notions of gentlemen being apparently governed by the cut of their coats. Another person is inclined to number in this category all those whose moral or political opinions decidedly differ from his own. A third, with magnificent impartiality, declares anybody whom...
...general use and frequent abuse of this excellent word render a word upon it very desirable. It is a term altogether too expressive to be cast aside; yet at the same time it will never do to permit it to be universally applied. A world full of scrubs would be a sorry world...
...scientific facts are frequently introduced at times when their connection with the subject of discourse is imperceptible. His conversation at its best would never be selected as a model of grammatical purity or refined elegance. The name of every by-way in his neighborhood is to him a household word; but he is a comparative stranger to the highways, and when seen there, is usually observed to appear ill at ease...