Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...shielded as in jet-black mail...
...into the black stormy night...
Adown whose sides the black of night...
...Lecture-Room of the Museum, in which Agassiz for the last time spoke in public, has been heavily draped in black...
...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...