Word: barring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...skull. The pictures seemed to move in their frames. I could see the figure of a dog run madly back and forth; the horses in "Aurora" were galloping furiously. With fearful effort I rose to my feet and tried to escape from the room, but an invisible bar held me back at the doorway. Meanwhile the wind had risen and was blowing the curtains...
...decided in favor of Heilbron; upon which a number of boorish Freshmen proceeded to display their ill breeding by hissing the judges' decision, an insult we have never before seen at Harvard, and hope never to see repeated. The two-hand vault followed, and brought out seven men; the bar was started at 5 feet 2 in. T. C. Batchelder, '83, and A. C. Denniston, '83, were the first to withdraw, at 6 ft. 3 in; C. M. Field, '84, and H. F. Mandell, '84, fell out at 6 ft. 6 in.; C. H. W. Foster...
Will I meet her at the bar...
...snapping of bright teeth, and a grinding sound, and there is nothing but a dark red stain on the fair white snow. Hu-u-u-u! how we sped along under the bright, cruel stars, to the merry, long-drawn notes, while the poor frightened peasant put another bar on his flimsy door and shiveringly murmured, "Les loups-garous...
...quite a delight for the bar...