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Thus ended an experiment which was financed unsatisfactorily, badly controlled, and of very doubtful utility as a means of developing the work of the Library The large increase in the stock of the lending library necessitated a new catalogue, and one (304 pp.) was printed and published in 1889, which was followed by supplements (88 pp. and 106 pp.) in 1889 and 1895.— Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857
To all his letters the new dean answered evasively and unsatisfactorily, by referring him to his attorney, into whose hands he said he had put the business, and he knew and wished to hear nothing more about it.— Tales and Novels — Volume 08
His murderer escaped, and the problem offered to the police was how to identify this person who, by some happy chance or by the exercise of the most remarkable forethought, had left no traces behind him, or any clue by which he could be followed The details of the investigation which ended so unsatisfactorily are here given by the man sent from headquarters at the first alarm When, some time after midnight on the date above mentioned, I reached Lafayette Place, I found the block lighted from end to end.— The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange
But mesdames received her so unsatisfactorily, that my own feelings told me, I ought not to be presented at court under her auspices We thanked the comtesse d'Aloigny therefore, and sent her, as a remuneration, twenty thousand livres from the king Whilst comte Jean failed on one side, the duc d'Aiguillon succeeded on another.— Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself
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