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Word: alling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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Towards the sea the ships had long lines of lanterns hung from their masts. Behind them, on the little island, the lights of the Armenian cloister were faintly seen. On the land side the two columns brought from the East were wreathed with light; a single band of white defined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FETE IN VENICE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

As far as the eye could see down the Canal, the successive lines of light, rising from the water's edge to the top of the palaces, pointed out their cornices and windows. In the city a single light from the top of the Campanile seemed like a rising star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FETE IN VENICE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

The fielding was marked by a fine throw of Bush to second, putting out O'Rourke; an equally fine throw of Hodges to Bush, catching George Wright; good catches by McKim and Tower; a double by Tyler and Hodges; and the excellent base playing of Kent, he having but one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE BALL. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

Rich and luxurious bindings have been prized from early times, but to attempt cheap imitations by cloth covers emblazoned with all the colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

Buying up all the books of a kind within reach and then selling them at an advanced price, a trick with which many of us are unpleasantly familiar, is a very neat plan for increasing the profits at first, but, we venture to suggest, may not pay in the long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

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