Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Night is chasing fast away...
Though crownless Greece has laid her dead away...
...fade quite away till life be banished...
...person can hardly walk through the older part of Boston without passing some spot or building which is closely associated with Revolutionary times. Commerce has destroyed many other places of equal note, and even these are passing away before the demands of trade. The utilitarian spirit of the times, not content with destroying the houses in which some of our forefathers lived, reaches out with an eager hand even toward their last resting-place...
...beneath the no less awful question what to do with it. In the coming fall, the oft-repeated query, "Did you enjoy your vacation?" will be answered by a careless, "Yes," under which lurks an uneasy feeling that a summer to which we have long looked forward has slipped away and left but little behind it. For we no sooner have our time than we are possessed with an eager desire to kill it; and our joy, when released from the Annuals, is changed to disgust at finding an elephant on our hands...