School-life at Winchester College: Or, The Reminiscences of a Winchester Junior Under the Old Régime, 1835-40. With a Glossary of Words, Phrases, and Customs, Peculiar to Winchester CollegeD. Nutt, 1893 - 243 páginas |
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Página 54 - ... But there were other ordeals that were not quite so harmless. Green was liable to be asked whether he possessed a pair of " Tin gloves." As this article does not generally form part of a boy's outfit, Bully would proceed to furnish him with a pair in the following manner : — Taking a halfconsumed stick from the fire, he would draw the "red-hot end...
Página 102 - Preces cum pio [devoto in the ancient and original version] animi affectu peraguntor. Oculi ne vagantor. Silentium esto. Nihil profanum legitor. In schola. — Diligentia quisque utitor. Submisse loquitor secum. Clare ad praeceptorem.
Página 102 - Haec aut (et) his similia (qui contra faxit) si quando deferantur (referantur) judicium damus. (Feriis exactis, nemo domi impune moratur.) Extra Collegium absque venia exeuntes, tertia vice expellimus...
Página 129 - I don't know what we should do without them." 55 beginning to come to the conclusion," she said, turning down the corners of that undulating mouth of hers in a rather disgusted way, "that it is quite possible to have too much of a good thing.
Página 229 - REMISSION — When owing to a Saint's day having fallen on the day previous to that on which a Verse or Prose Task, or Vulgus, was due, the boys were excused from doing it, there was said to be REMISSION from it. Rep, subs. 1. (Harrow and King Edward's, Birrn.).
Página 221 - Muddle-headed [mud-1-hed-ed], adj. (1) Confused and bewildered in ideas. (2) Tipsy. *Ak. Mug [mug] v. to read hard ; also to pay great attention to anything. Any one cleaning and oiling a bat was said to mug it ; a boy with carefully greased and brushed hair was said to have mugged hair. — Winch. Sch.
Página 199 - t will [bee hou twil], phrase. Let the consequence be what it may. — J. Bell Heath [bel-heth], sb. Erica Tetralix.—3. B.
Página 56 - The tutor was tall, thin, bullet -headed, and apparently about forty-five years of age, and he used, from time to time, to conduct his pupil into a quiet corner, and, with a cheerful smile beaming on hi3 countenance, would give himself a few minutes' healthy, but not too violent, exercise.
Página 108 - softened his manners,' and had 'permitted them to be fierce' — tremendously fierce. He had such a complete command over his temper — I mean over his good temper — that he scarcely THE ROD IN SCHOOL.
Página 214 - Hill, a green hill about one mile and a-half from College, about five hundred feet high, and near the top surrounded by a deep trench, the remains of an old Roman camp. The boys had to ascend this twice a day on whole Holidays and Remedies, once before breakfast, and again at half-past two. In the summer they also went out in the evening, but did not ascend Hills, but disported themselves below. These sorties Glossary. 2 1 5 were called " going on to Hills," tlie evening expedition being called