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"Expound, Jacob," said the Dominie, "who hath done this?" "The big boy with the red hair, and a face picked all over with holes like the strainers in master's kitchen," replied I. "Mr Knapps, it would be infra dig on my part, and also on yours, to suffer this disrespect to pass unnoticed. Ring in the boys."
Fairbairn, delighted, immediately broached the subject to his friend. Poor Riddell was astounded at such a notion. He cox the schoolhouse boat in the regatta! "My dear fellow," said he to Fairbairn. "I'm not a very exalted personage in Willoughby as it is but this would be the finishing stroke!" "What do you mean that it's infra dig. to cox the boat?" "Oh no!" said Riddell, "anything but that.
One of the evil effects of this tendency I have hitherto descanted upon, to wit, the growing disposition of American women to regard all routine labour, particularly in the home, as infra dignitatem and hence intolerable. Out of' that notion arise many lamentable phenomena.
He seemed pleased at the moment, but said next minute, 'You have distressed me if memory goes, all is up with me, for that was always my strong point." Life, vol. ix. p. 236. Milton's L'Allegro, ver. 137, 294. Afterwards second Earl Powis. Regarding the Chancery business, see infra, p. 191, n. Sir Walter had shortly before been one of the contributors to a subscription for Mr. Haydon.
I had invited the Imperial Commissioners to dine with me, and requested that they would send a juggler to perform before dinner. They tried to fight shy after having accepted, I suppose because they considered it infra dig. to attend at the performance of the juggler; but they came at last, and enjoyed the dinner part of the affair thoroughly.
Two out of seven chances, and we drew one of them. We are still working on the infra band, over across on the Second's board, but we won't last long...."
But it might be infra dig. for the boat to be steered into the bank in the middle of the race." "Humbug, if that's your only reason. Anyhow, old man, come down and try your hand in the four to-morrow morning." Riddell protested that the idea was absurd, and that he wouldn't hear of it. But Fairbairn reasoned him down.
Et infra: Sex enim diebus fecit Dominus caelum et terram et mare et omnia quae in eis sunt, et idem repetitur in cap. 31.
Cf. also Grindal's Injunc. for the Province of York , art. 17, Remains of Grindal, Parker Soc., 132 ff. See Visitations of the Archdeacon of Canterbury, Archaeologia Cantiana, xxvi , 24 . Mr. Arthur Hussey has published copious extracts from the act-books of these visitations extending over a considerable period in vols. xxv-xxvii of the Arch. Cant. For perambulations see p. 27 infra.
Hornblower, and persuading her that to make a dragoon of her son was the very best thing for him great promotion, and quite removed from the ordinary vulgar enlistment in the line till he had wiled consent out of her. And though Philip declared it was blarney, and was inclined to think it infra dig. to have thus exerted his eloquence, it was certain that Mrs.
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