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"It's about your intimacy with His Highness," Mrs. Cary went on. "I can't help thinking it has gone too far." "In what way?" "You ride out with him every morning." "You said nothing a month ago when I went out for the first time." "It was the first time. And I didn't know people would talk." "Do they talk?" "Yes. Mrs. Berry told me only this afternoon that she thought it most infra dig.
"I am not quite certain about that; but I think he said it was infra dig. for the Steinheimers to call in the police. Anyhow, it was an excuse which did not satisfy the Princess; but as guests were arriving, and as it was desirable that there should be no commotion to mar the occasion, the Princess temporarily yielded to the wish of her husband, and nothing was said publicly about the robbery.
In the early history of the game a half-back, and even back, did not consider it infra dig. to dribble a bit and bring up the ball to goal, provided the match was against a much weaker club, and while Ker was a grand back and beautiful kicker with his left foot, he was also an accomplished dribbler.
Our weekly newspapers are at present little better than records of immorality and crime, and the effect which arises from having no other matter to read and comment upon, is of serious injury to the morality of the country ... I consider, therefore, that in writing for the amusement and instruction of the poor man, I am doing that which has but been too much neglected that I am serving my country, and you surely will agree with me that to do so in not infra. dig. in the proudest Englishman; and, as a Conservative, you should commend rather than stigmatise my endeavours in the manner which you have so hastily done."
If the graduates in this way condescend to express their thoughts in English, it is understood to be infra dignitatem such light and unaccustomed essays do not fit the ponderous gravity of their pen they only draw to advantage and with full justice to themselves in the bow of the ancients. Their native tongue is to them strange, inelegant, unapt, and crude.
Stanhope was chancellor to the bishop of London. See p. 46 ff. infra. Also Ch. ii, infra. Hale, Crim. Prec., 155. Ordinary is that ecclesiastical magistrate who has regular jurisdiction over a district, in opposition to judges extraordinarily appointed. At common law a bishop was taken to be the ordinary in his diocese, and so he was designated in some acts of Parliament.
Before he was a General, what do you think he did for a living? He used to clean Lord Taborley's boots. You don't believe it, but it's a fact. Daddy's terribly grim with me over it. Of course it was infra dig to go footing all over town with your best friend's valet. But how was I to know that he'd been that? Daddy says I ought to have sensed it, if I'd had any sort of a social instinct.
Quid enim aliud nobis, quam caedem Crassi, amisso et ipse Pacoro, infra Ventidium dejectus Oriens objecerit?
After some weeks, during which he complained of headache and nervous irritation, certain hæmorrhages indicated the sort of relief required, and he obtained it from copious cupping. Life, vol. ix. p. 327-8. See infra, p. 299. The Beaux's Stratagem, Farquhar. Through the courtesy of Miss Dick Lauder I am enabled to give the letter referred to:
The Coon and he talk rot sporting rot and it would only bore you to listen to it." Jack said, "It does not matter in the least. I'd as soon look at the ducks as listen to Hill. It's a bit infra dig., though, that he should object."
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