Chapter XVII · Honorary Editors and Others

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a record or narrative description of past events

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

make a more or less disguised reference to

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

one or some or every or all without specification

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

the biblical name for ancient Syria

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

past form of “attribute” — attribute or credit to

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

exceptionally bad or displeasing

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

earlier than; in front of

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the sacred writings of the Christian religions

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a statute in draft before it becomes law

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

of or relating to or being biography

From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.

a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

a division of some larger or more complex organization

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996)

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

plural of “column” — a line of units following one after another

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

arousing or provoking laughter

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

plural of “comment” — a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

inflected form of “compel” — force somebody to do something

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

past form of “conduct” — direct the course of; manage or control

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

form or compose

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

make right or correct

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

someone who communicates by means of letters

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws

From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.

plural of “critic” — a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

traveling across

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

every day; without missing a day

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a native or inhabitant of Denmark

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

plural of “department” — a specialized division of a large organization

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

past form of “deride” — treat or speak of with contempt

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

feelings of ardent love

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

past form of “die” — pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.

the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

with ease (“easy” is sometimes used informally for “easily”)

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

plural of “enthusiast” — an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

the state of being total and complete

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

containing or characterized by error

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

having an illustrious reputation; respected

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736)

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

past form of “exempt” — grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

have an existence, be extant

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

undergo or live through a difficult experience

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

expose or make accessible to some action or influence

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the commercial activity of providing funds and capital

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

-ing form of “form” — create (as an entity)

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

set up or found

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

acknowledged as a supposition

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898)

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

plural of “grievance” — a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

plural of “hundred” — ten 10s

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

past form of “imprint” — establish or impress firmly in the mind

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

moving to the inside of something

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

United States writer remembered for his stories (1783-1859)

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

and nothing more

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

young sheep

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

plural of “land” — the land on which real estate is located

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the sound of laughing

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the literary culture

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

of or relating to or characteristic of literature

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the act that results in something coming to be

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

the act of managing something

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the force of workers available

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

used to say something is possible but not certain

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

plural of “mistake” — a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

a particular point in time

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a form of address for a man

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

not ever; at no time in the past or future

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

plural of “newspaper” — a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

not any; not one

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

having official authority or sanction

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

give money, usually in exchange for goods or services

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

by chance

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

voluntary promotion of human welfare

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

operate an airplane

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

participate in games or sport

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

plural of “poem” — a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.

a geometric element that has position but no extension

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

-ing form of “point” — indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

by reasonable assumption

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

past form of “print” — put into print

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the body of people in a learned occupation

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

in accordance with truth or fact or reality

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

past form of “regard” — deem to be

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

plural of “result” — a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

with honesty

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

mentally healthy; free from mental disorder

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

open and genuine; not deceitful

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

preliminary drawing for later elaboration

From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.

Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

use up a period of time in a specific way

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

a particular environment or walk of life

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

-ing form of “suggest” — make a proposal, declare a plan for something

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

plural of “suggestion” — an idea that is suggested

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

the largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)

From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.

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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the words of something written

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

in or at that place or location

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

plural of “thousand” — the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

a more or less definite period of time now or previously present

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

a subdivision of a particular kind of thing

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

precisely as stated

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

extremely annoying or displeasing

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

an act of traveling by water

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

used to ask for information about something

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

at the time that

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

which person or people

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

belonging to which person

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

in the company of; together with

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity

From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._

buildings for carrying on industrial labor

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

the act of creating written works

From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.

set down in writing in any of various ways

From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.

possessive form of “yesterday” — the day immediately before today

From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.

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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.