Word: worsted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first piece, 'Shadow Fancies,' is passable; the next, 'Ballads,' a little better; Vestigia Nulla Retorsum,' awfully poor; 'Student Lamps,' just tolerable; Louis Adolphe Thiers,' good, yea, very good, in fact, the only good article we found; 'Hobbies,' insipid; 'My Friend Balbus,' worse; 'Summer,' worst, - the worst we ever saw. This will do. We do not know how highly cultured the Quarterly's readers may be, but if we may judge of their understandings by the articles written for them, we should say their amount of knowledge, individually, was about that of a four-year-old child...
...horned cattle the worst is a college graduate in a newspaper office." - HORACE GREELEY...
...even though done with noisy obtrusiveness under the eyes of the vanquished, since her signal success was as much unexpected as was our overwhelming defeat. But while acknowledging our defeat, it is but fair to say that Yale played her best game of the season, while we played our worst; that Yale was unusually fortunate at the bat, while we were particularly unfortunate, batting everything usually on the bound, into the hands of their fielders. The resume and score will tell the rest of the story...
THERE are several circumstances in connection with the foot-ball game of last Saturday which deserve notice. The police arrangements were the worst we have ever seen at any match game in Cambridge; many rowdies and other persons without tickets entered the grounds and took seats before play had begun, and the scene at the end of the first half of the game, when the "muckers," unrestrained in the least degree by the police, rushed in and covered the grounds, was highly discreditable to all those who had the management of the game. The view of the ladies...
...times, although it may outrun them in a thousand other absurdities. To whatever quality it may be due, whether to common-sense, or lack of deference, or indolence, we no longer find the lover addressing his mistress in metaphors, the far-fetchedness of which would put to shame the worst of college puns, nor does he, at the critical moment, lay an exposition of his feelings before the lady, marked by all the elaborateness and ingenuity of a law-argument. The remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar to that produced...