Word: barking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HOUNDS OF HELL GATE, OR A MINE WITHIN A MINE. Chapter I. The great city is at rest. The organ-grinders have retired to their downy couch, and the busy hum of trade is still. All is silent. But bark! From yonder splendid mansion peal forth the strains of revelry and mirth. It is the birthday of the 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...
...spot where I calculated the train, as required by State laws, must stop. Lighting a cigarette, I sat down on some lumber piled alongside the track, and rested myself. I heard the monotonous sound of my Charon's oar-locks die away in the distance; there was an occasional bark from some far-off farmer's house-dog at intervals that made the silence more supreme, and my thoughts, mounting the fumes of my cigarette for their hippogriff, galloped away as only reveries can speed at the end of a particularly interesting holiday." And here my chum poked the fire...
...Printed upon birch bark in hieroglyphic characters, and recently discovered in a mound near St. Louis...
Distend the bark's blue shroud...
...battered bark with broken masts and wind-dismantled sails...