Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Park, the brilliant actress, Madame Janauschek, is announced. Her reputation as an actress is too well known to call for any comment in our columns. On Monday and Saturday evenings, she appears in "Mary Stuart;" Tuesday and Thursday, in "Bleak House;" on Wednesday evening and at the Saturday matinee, in "Mother and Son;" and Friday evening, "Deborah...
...come with its days bleak and chill...
...usual for fellows to worry much over one another's goings-out and comings-in - but yet - there was something, a premonition of danger, I might call it, that weighed heavily upon my spirits. I wandered about the room uneasily; I tried to get interested in "Bleak House;" I returned to my pipe for consolation. I was miserably restless. The clock struck twelve, - hollow, resounding strokes, every one of which increased my nervous expectation. I felt that I must do something; I took up my hat and coat, and was about to start off myself in search of Steve, when...
...served a term in the building bleak...
...stable, stately solidity of Boylston's Bleak Blocks is fast being changed, but into what no one has yet found out, though the surmises are many. Some think that the men who are hammering away day by day at the walls are men who take field work in geology, in search of specimens. Others say that a new mining company has been organized, called the Boylston Bonanza, and that there are millions in those stones...