Word: air
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...content with sitting in the Chapel for two hours, on what is well known to be the hottest day of the year, and listening to an orator who seldom has much to say that is worth hearing, they have been in the habit of adjourning to the open air to solace themselves with another oration...
Comes through the air with a rippling fall...
...that instant the man we spoke of came, and was passing between me and the old and nearly forgotten well, and strongly I pressed against him and he fell. A howling gust swept the field, and, folded in the darkness of the Shape, I was hurried through the air." The apparition stopped...
...bestowed his energies on the funeral dirge in "Round the World in Eighty Days," and has brought it to such a state of perfection that one almost expects to see the Amazons, et catera, coming up the stairs. His audience fondly trust that some other equally classical air may soon take the place of this...
...fellow-men. The character of these people is so despicable, and their opinion is known to be so worthless, that I habitually pass them by without notice, and think no more of their prattle than an elephant thinks of the buzz of a fly, which may soar in the air above him, but which in that very flight goes beyond the range of ordinary eyesight, and which can never hope to attract attention while its mighty fellow-creature is at hand...