Word: bears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senses to take leave of him for the time. The unfortunate Isaac, lies upon the snow, till his dog, - not mentioned in the ballads, but which must have been there, as Mr. Cranch observes, - runs to Mr. Brown's, and leads him to the scene of the accident. They bear the stricken man to his home and nurse him tenderly; - fruitless effort; he dies, and they lay him in the cold ground...
...thing the team should bear in mind is that almost all Yale's victories have been due as much to her prestige as to her skill, to the other team going into the contest with the expectation of being defeated. The only times of late years when Yale has been met by a really confident team have been the last two Yale-Princeton games. In the first one, the game was never finished, but it was anybody's game all the way through, while last year's game resulted in a well-earned victory for Princeton. These two games...
Receiving to-day with abundant gratitude the high honors of the university, I bear to her my renewed allegiance and I salute her officers and my fellow graduates with cordial thankfulness and fraternal regard. It is the record of history that in the earlier days when my predecessors in the gubernatorial office visited the college, they held all their conversations with the president for the time being in the Latin language. [Laughter.) This delightful custom has lately fallen into disuse and the present occasion marks its complete abandonment. [Laughter.] Indeed, the intercourse between the high officials at the present time...
...give you therefore, my brethren, the President of the United States: wisdom to the head, courage to the heart, strength to the hands, always of him who shall bear aloft the shield on which are emblazoned the arms of the American Union. (Applause...
...command of Miles Standish to explore the waters of Massachusetts Bay, as Boston harbor was then called. As they passed the islands, which then as now stand watch and ward over the entrance of this estuary of the Charles, they bestowed upon those islands a name which they still bear, that of the Brewsters, after their Elder, William Brewster, who had been a scholar of Peterhouse in the great university in England. A year or two later, when that solitary Englishman - how he came, when and whence, we are at a loss to know - built his hut on the Shawmut...