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Word: blacke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Lecture-Room of the Museum, in which Agassiz for the last time spoke in public, has been heavily draped in black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...laurel cross and wreaths surmounting the black hangings, behind and above the pulpit, and the dark drapery festooned along the galleries and caught up alternately by boughs of evergreen and by calla-lilies, gave to the whole Chapel an air of mourning, and yet of hopeful and of almost triumphant mourning, which every one there must have felt to be most appropriate. The form of service used at King's Chapel - the one which Agassiz himself preferred, we believe - was read by the Rev. Dr. Peabody. The singing, under the direction of Mr. Paine, was by the Glee Club; they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FUNERAL OF AGASSIZ. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...Oxford gives the number of students in Christ College. There is something very pleasant and even touching in this union under one roof of lives so different as the careless school-boy's, with all the world before him, and the pensioner's in his black gown, with his work all done and only waiting for his dismissal. That most beautiful passage at the end of the Newcomes has been so often quoted that I will not give it here, but only repeat one word, which must bring back that closing scene to any one who has ever read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO OLD SCHOOLS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

...costume of the boys was a blue tunic, yellow vest, black belt, long yellow stockings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO OLD SCHOOLS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

...great black guns were left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORMING OF MISSION RIDGE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

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