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...Senior's philosophy. The upper-class men, in fact, came and hazed him. They turned an empty water-pail upside down over his head, and smoked perique and green seal under it till he was nearly black in the face. They made him crawl under the table and bark like a dog (which he did very naturally, with a puppy-like whine that nearly killed the Sophomores with laughter). When they recovered, and allowed him to come out, he merely gazed at them with his beautiful china-blue eyes full of that look of meek reproach for which his brother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMANCE OF A PIOUS YOUTH. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...grinding up tan bark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERSES | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JEREMIAH SMITH. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TENDER STORY. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...Printed upon birch bark in hieroglyphic characters, and recently discovered in a mound near St. Louis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RELIGION AND MORALS OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

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