Word: band
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From 8 to 10 illumination of Holworthy, and playing of the Band on the Green, also dancing in Memorial Hall...
...uniforms. They are of a gray color, a little darker than last year, and are trimmed with crimson. The undershirt worn while playing is much lighter than the rest of the suit, and is without sleeves. It has an H. on the breast similar to boating-shirts, and a band of crimson round the neck. The overshirt is double-breasted, with an embroidered H. The trousers of former years have been changed to loose knee-breeches, and crimson stockings. The cap is a little stouter and higher than before...
...Pelop's mighty isle where reigns the Dorian band...
...part they preferred to amuse themselves with burning down the houses, and driving off the cattle of their enemies, or - mutato nomine, for it amounts to the same things - in borrowing from their friends. Between the two the Westchesterites had a happy time, and no mistake. Sometimes the same band would be Cow-boys one week, and Skinners the next, helping themselves to everything, now in the name of the Union, and now in that of the King. To say who were the worse, the Cow-boys or the Skinners, would be hard indeed; both were as bad as they...
...band of maidens whose bared breasts shed gleams...