Word: airs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Uncertain as the Boston air...
...second day's sports in the Gymnasium last Saturday afternoon filled the little building to a most uncomfortable degree. Fortunately for the contestants, if not for many others, the request that gentlemen would not smoke was strictly observed, and the air was not so stifling as usual...
...fair young heiress, Adelia De Bray. Within is the gay music of the dance, the whirling figures of ravishing beauties, and the sparkling wine. Amidst all the joyous mirth moves Adelia the admired of all admirers. Wearied with constant flattery, she seeks, for a moment, the pure air of the outer heavens; and, as she gazes at the silver crescent above, her thoughts wander far away to another hemisphere, and she murmurs softly, "Clarence, ever mine own." She sees not the forms of two masked figures creeping stealthily behind her. The next moment a stifled cry, the odor of chloroform...
...sweet face, unstirred by breath of air...
Every motion as light as the air...