Word: blowne
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tempest-blown robes...
...terrific wind storm prevailed at Leavenworth, Kansas, between 12 and 1 o'clock Saturday morning, and Mt. St. Mary's Academy, four miles south of the city, suffered terribly. The main tower was blown over on the dormitory, crushing in the roof, and killing a number of the children and wounding others...
...explanation offered by the Amherst nine, in excuse of their failure to appear at Providence on Saturday, seems so satisfactory to every one that the whole difficulty has blown over. By the presentation of a paper signed by members of their faculty, the Amherst nine will call for another date on which to play off the second game with Brown. The satisfaction which we receive by this announcement from Amherst is very great, inasmuch as its raises our chances again for the championship and adds defeats to several of our most dangerous rivals. Fortune seems to smile upon us again...
...interferes with the lamp of the man next to the window. It seems as if some way could be found by which this terrible nuisance could be abated to a great extent. As it is, seventy-five men have to suffer for fear one man's lamp will be blown...
...takes eight hundred full-blown roses to make a single tablespoonful of the famous perfume, and you can get enough perfume out of an onion to drive a dog on the gallop out of a slaughter house. And yet we admire the rose more than we do the onion. - [Post...