Word: across
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Across the graves that hold the sacred bones...
...Tuesday. - We started out to go to Cambridge, lying to the N. E. of Boston, in order to see their college and printing-office. We left abt. 6 o'k in the morning, and were set across the river at Charlestown. We reached Cambridge abt. 8 o'k. It is not a large village, and the houses stand very much apart. The college building is the most conspicuous among them. We went to it expecting to see something curious, as it is the only college or would-be academy of the Protestants in all America; but we found ourselves mistaken...
...learn from the same paper that a "Bicyle Club" is in prosperous condition at Cambridge, Eng. The club has rooms "where maps and literature connected with bicyles will be at the disposal of members," and hold regular "meets" twice a week for "runs" across country...
...that of the King. To say who were the worse, the Cow-boys or the Skinners, would be hard indeed; both were as bad as they could be, - Arcades ambo! They made things so hot in Westchester that Old Nick fled in dismay from his disciples across Long Island Sound. Every place where his fiery hoofs touched the hissing sea there sprang up a black rock, and these now bear the name of the Devil's Stepping-Stones. His Satanic Majesty found in his place of refuge a congenial home, and has ever since resided in the western portion...
With curious tinted light across...