Word: adams
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...room enough in the world for you and me." Never give up the valuable virtues for muddled fuddled stultified fabulous pandomoniums. Try is the lever that moves the life and matter of the world. Mark the march of evolution the last six thousand years ever since the days of Adam and Eve playing behind an apple tree sowing leaves together to make an apron or the dens and caves in the earth for a habitation. The future of the past eclipsed by humanity to man the heaven of the mind. Shakespere divides greatness into three characters, first born great, second...
...pleased excitement as though something of importance were momentarily expected to take place. Mrs. Butterfield, who was still at her toilet table arranging a bit of Spanish lace about her neck, was being put to considerable anxiety in her endeavor to hide her rather prominent Adam's apple and at the same time conceal the neck of her dress which was made to wear with a collar and was not meant to be seen. After she had managed to effect her purpose with a considerable outlay of pins, her looking-glass showed her the necessity of another application...
...that you do not agree with me, and are fearful lest some case of excessive drinking should occur which would tend to injure Harvard in the opinion of outsiders. You say that a man could restrain his desire for drinking until he had crossed the yard to go to Adam's or Carl's. But the same thing could be said of the entire list of extras. It is not a question of what a man can do but what is most convenient...
English Readings. Adam Bell. Professor Child. Sever...
...Adam Forepaugh, of circus fame, brings a Humpty Dumpty Troupe to the Howard. Mr. George H. Adams is the clown, and one of the novelties introduced is a large menagerie...