Word: alhambra
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...commemoration of the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria; it disputed with the Eiffel Tower the palm for interest and success at the World's Fair in Paris in 1889; it traversed Europe, crossed the Alps and the Pyrenees, and camped beneath the walls of the Alhambra and within the vast interior of the Colosseum at Rome. Princes, potentates and powers have all been guests at its tables and have learned the lessons of the conquest of the New World from conqueror and conquered...
...Alhambra yesterday morning Cleary, the Philadelphian, knocked Geo. Rooke out of time in three rounds...
...before you, in front of the fire, in a French plaid breakfast-jacket, large checked trousers, silk socks and pumps, only stopping now and then to light a caporal, he will tell you long yarns of his experiences at the Mabille, the Students' Balls, the Argylle Rooms, or the Alhambra; and when you get up to go, he will close his remarks by deprecating the utter dulness of America...
...medicine was small, consisting of a flask of cognac, and a small bottle of laudanum, - the latter to be used in case of toothache. I began with the cognac. The pains were unabated, and before long I was in so uncomfortable a condition that my interest in the Alhambra itself almost vanished. I could think of nothing but number one and number one's stomach. That organ was evidently not susceptible to the influence of cognac, so I turned to my only other resource, the laudanum. For a whole day I took microscopic doses at stated intervals, with no apparent...
...started away. Granada was charming, but it was sleepy, and its sleepiness was too suggestive. I longed for new scenes; so with a shorter mustache - of course I had to cut off the other side to match - and a more serious disposition, I prepared to bid farewell to the Alhambra...