Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...common forms of exorcism. Instantly the myriad houris assumed the forms of irritated demons; the smoke from the uncounted narghiles burned thick and black; the cries of the frustrated ginns who were no better than they should be rang wildly in our ears; the palm tree shook beneath a mighty wind; the distant summits of the minarets rocked and wavered, and, with a tremendous crash, the paradise of the faithful disappeared.[A. Lang, in the Fornightly Review...
...substantial edifice of brick and granite, containing on the ground floor twenty-two solid granite crypts for the remains of the members of the Lee family. Mrs. General Lee's dust now reposes in one of them. The body of General Lee lies beneath a splendid costly white marble sarcophagus, surmounted with a full length recumbent statue of the general himself. This beautiful piece of sculpture is located in what may be called the second story. It is a spacious apartment of solid stone, the walls of which are paneled to receive appropriate inscriptions, and is lighted from the roof...
...alarm box on the campus, but never mind that. Our lives may be in the greatest peril from the lack of proper fire escapes, but never mind that; at least let every man secure an insurance on his own room, and when our charred remains are dragged from beneath the ruins of old South or North, and all the censure heaped upon the faculty and corporation by weeping friends, our own insurance policies will clearly prove that we had done what we could. [News...
...such courses are taken. No student now feels he has a good education unless he has intelligent views on the practical questions of the day, and the only way to get these intelligent views is to study for them. The time has now gone past when it was deemed beneath a gentleman's dignity to meddle in the mess into which politics had fallen. No one is now too good to lay hold and help. Education is the only way to make our voters intelligent, and the more college-bred men, who are an educated class in themselves, we send...
...Beneath her shawl...