Whatever the nature of the punishment, it was not what is known as rustication; for. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
James Russell Lowell was forced into "rustication" for two months in his senior year at Harvard and compelled to read John Locke and other difficult authors during the period. From Wordnik.com. [Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina] Reference
Our rustication issue got buried down in the thick of the movement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
“So this rustication was not exactly of your own choice?” she said. From Wordnik.com. [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference
“In fact…in fact a few weeks of rustication was…uh…suggested.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference
I grew much closer to him after my rustication from Fort Hare University. From Wordnik.com. [Special Edition: A Tribute to Chief Albert Luthuli] Reference
The Principal called the Gymkhana members and threatened them of rustication. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
What else is it than to suffer exile within the same walls, actual rustication?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
We were awaiting our rustication orders when an event changed the whole course. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
The high wind of inspiration blew through his long, packed, isolated rustication. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Frost: 1875–1963] Reference
I took this rustication for six months, sometimes in town, sometimes on the hill, just as the whim suits. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn] Reference
(This is a nice touch — no amount of rustication can teach the New York native to trust country dentists.). From Wordnik.com. [From J.D., P.O. Box 32] Reference
Eden was proclaiming the debilitating influence of a life of rustication on a man's instincts for self-defense. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
This time she only raised her brows a trifle, and not as if she found this fact an evidence of her rustication. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
Botany Bay, which is a place both of retirement and rustication for his invalided wives who have lost their freshness with age. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
Click on all his Web site's little boxes if you really like the fiery rustication between Broadway, West Broadway, Houston and Canal. From Wordnik.com. [The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday] Reference
Your dodge does not "go down," although beyond a doubt you will; for the Proctor will visit your double offence with summary rustication. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
For you knew full well that beneath the Proctor's suave demeanour lurked a sting which too often took the painful form of rustication from the University. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
After my rustication from Fort Hare, I was shadowed by the security police and because of this I was not a card-carrying member of the ANC, although I was still ANC. From Wordnik.com. [Special Edition: A Tribute to Chief Albert Luthuli] Reference
His rustication, or suspension from Trinity College. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
This is all the rustication I have had, or am like to have. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I] Reference
Formal corporal punishment would have rendered rustication unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Milton] Reference
I dare say you heard from Henrietta how we enjoyed our rustication at Siena. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference
Cranch is about breaking up house-keeping preparatory to his summer rustication. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
At last the end of the Sudberrys 'rustication arrived; the last day of their sojourn dawned. From Wordnik.com. [Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication] Reference
The delay resulted from an occurrence which he never admitted deserved a year's rustication. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)] Reference
Where I next settle I shall continue, and that must be in a state of retirement and rustication. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference
About the fifth day of his rustication the sharp edge of Chieftain's appreciation became dulled. From Wordnik.com. [Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle] Reference
Where I next settle I shall, continue, and that must be in a state of retirement and rustication. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
Here, to recover from a state of debility thus produced, a year's rustication has been found necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
This inevitably meant rustication, and, above all, expulsion from the academic association to which he belonged. From Wordnik.com. [My Life — Volume 1] Reference
"Diodati", that he had incurred "rustication," a temporary dismission into the country, with perhaps the loss of a term. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
London brought the enclosed from Tom Echo, upon whom the sentence of rustication has, I fear, been productive of fresh follies. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
The period of my rustication was expired, and the term immediately preceding the summer vacation was on the point of beginning. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
We are hoping that he will come down and see us in the course of our rustication at the Baths, and occupy our spare bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
Reconciled to the plan, of returning to Camford after the year of his rustication, he was now trying to settle his future profession. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Home] Reference
It was there that Kennedy had lived from childhood, and it was there that he now returned to spend at home the year of his rustication. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Home] Reference
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