Word: beheld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Natives of Providence, R. I., craned at them. Over Woonsocket one of the escorts faltered, dropped, crashed, but hurt no one. New London looked up, saw Lieut. Smith's mechanician drop a message to his family. All the Connecticut towns along Long Island Sound beheld the droning machines moving steadily down...
...Hector Sin- clair, of Eldorado, Kan., hurried into a second-hand bookstore. He had heard that the vendor possessed a copy of a work for which he had searched for over 50 years-the writings of the Jewish historian, Josephus. Hector paid $2.50, opened his book, beheld his own name on the flyleaf, recognized the volume as one he had lost...
High over the Bay of Bengal sped a lone seaplane, bound for the coast of Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...
...usually staid, not to say austere interior of the New Lecture Hall is transformed this evening by flags and banners into a miniature of Madison Square Garden a few weeks hence, the scene will bear a distinct resemblance to the town of Eatanswill, where Mr. Pickwick and his friends beheld a Parlimentary election...
Even as a child he had strange adventures. Melusine, the immortal elvish sorceress, found him daydreaming one day, took him into the forest of Acaire. There was a high place in the middle of that wood. There Florian beheld Melior, asleep beneath a coverlet of violet wool in her father's bemagicked palace, and, having seen the perfect beauty of Melior, all great satisfaction in mortal women was spoiled for him. When he grew up, it is true, he married four times, lived a life of extreme if elegant debauchery and committed crimes too numerous to note. But in spite...