Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...corner of my own room; and there I concocted all manner of horrible compounds. There were objections to this private laboratory. A peculiar odor was wafted into the entry every time I opened the door, and several violent explosions made my neighbors fear lest I should some day blow the house to pieces. But I had the true chemist's indifference to smells, and the greatest confidence in my own skill...
...Chloe feel one little blow...
PROBABLY every one of us has received a violent blow in the face from those green doors at the entrance of University. Just as you are rushing in, some one coming out is sure to drive the door between your eyes, - the result of which action is to remind you of required Astronomy. Under ordinary circumstances one comes out under stronger incentive than one goes in, and this additional danger from those deadly doors is enough to discourage all attendance within the portals of University. The College might, at a trifling expense, put glass into the doors, and thus give...
...Blow strong, ye winds, press full their sails...
...could see him nod his head in the firelight as he turned to the closet. I fled to the curtain. You have no idea how long it seemed as I waited for the entrance of the burglar. I could feel the wind blow in through the cracks in the window; it wasn't comfortable. But at last a dexterous turn threw the bolt, and the door opened. A dark form crossed the room and entered my bedroom, shutting the door carefully. I came out into the room, my chum did the same; we seized our canes from the chandelier...