Word: bas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...capable of writing a respectable short story is growing beautifully smaller every day. "The story in the February Century," the Critic says, "is one of the shortest short-stories the magazine has ever published, and one of the best. It is at once manly and tender; it bas heart as well as ingenuity...
...general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with a broad band of bas-relief near the top. The bas-relief represents action and attitudes of riding a race. The whole is surmounted by a cap or cover of elegant design, bearing a winged wheel flying through bronzed silver dust...