Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perry had blown up in the first set and that Merlin, playing with the calm arrogance of a Cochet, had won it at 6-4-that made the last match so exciting...
...teens, in the comic-tragic age, haunted by the chimeras of Sin and Nobility. Between the two Vridar had a bad time, nearly went insane with brooding. The story ends on a comparatively cheerful note, with the ghosts that are tormenting Vridar's half-crazy conscience blown away in gusts of healthy laughter...
...Crawford marched into the local works of Carnegie Steel Co., picked up a long iron blow pipe, thrust the red-hot tip through a hole in a furnace, igniting a mass of oil-soaked waste. Laborers did the same through eleven other holes and Furnace No. 4 was then blown in. That night Duquesne paraded in celebration...
...vegetative must. A crabbed, sea-green foam of new leaves leaps about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon strangely bright and noticeable about him, bristling with immaculate greenness. Through the ploughing wind he walks, feeling like a dog whose hair is blown back straight over his eyes, caressed and washed by the rapid air. Only now, through the deep blue dusk, a press of desire comes upon him, he is no more content with the street, the passers-by in their bright clothes, the scented dust that fills the air; but longs...
White sheets bleaching on the hedge, a catch for Maytime whistled along the breeze, a square of redolent earth, a wisp of fine yellow hair blown across the check; these are the objects proper to such...