Word: bays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Natural History Society have on foot a project to utilize the valuable dredging-apparatus in the possession of the University. The proposed plan is some time during the spring to hire a steam-tug, and, during a two-days' cruise in Massachusetts Bay, to gain a practical knowledge of sea-dredging. Members of the society and students interested in natural history will form the party, and it is expected that some member of the Faculty will accompany the expedition...
...however unfriendly a reception may be accorded to the organ-grinder within these classic precincts, in less cultured yards he is sure of an enthusiastic and appreciative audience who drink in the charms of music and monkey with open mouths. Put him in front of a bay-window, with a couple of babies looking out in the seventh heaven of ecstasy, and a nurse to take off his hat to, and to lavish his most winning smile upon, and it will be hard to find a more contented being than Signor Smitherini. He knows that he is inspiring...
...usual purpose of mats, but it was a transmittendum, and a very venerable one, too. Long years ago one of those New England boys of the bean-pole structure, who entered college at the age of thirteen, brought the mat with him from his farm-home on Narragansett Bay. It was new then, and had been woven in bright colors by an old Indian squaw, a veritable descendant of King Philip. For a year it lay before the front door of the old farm-house; but it was destined to be wiped by more ambitious feet than those of country...
...soft moist breeze from o'er the bay...
That had sought the sheltered bay...