Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pass that the Morgue is no longer a mere inanimate building. It becomes weirdly endowed with an awful personality. It is an explorer, it is an expounder, it is a preacher, it is a prophet, it is a stern moralist, it is a ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold at heart, and-come...
...resisted, but was again renewed, and from that time till the river was reached a running fight was kept up between the Socialists surrounding the trophy and the students. Sticks were flourished, windows were smashed, and several quiet bystanders got stones in the eye, and a dozen heads were broken. At last the students were vanquished and driven off, amid the exulting yells of the revolutionists...
...will be noticed in the cast of characters that nearly every one of the important parts is broken up and assigned to several actors. The reason for this arrangement can easily be seen...
...objective of 36 inches clear aperture. For four years he has worked without success, every disk breaking on account of the heat which is necessary in the last stage of the making. Finally, last month he telegraphed that he had actually molded a glass without its being broken; and so at last the disk, the one vital organ of a telescope, is completed. The construction of the delicate yet powerful machinery, by which the tube sixty feet long is to be pointed toward any part of the heavens, and kept in motion by clock work, has not yet been commenced...
...days ago a gentleman interested in college journalism was skating swiftly over the glassy surface of the winding Charles, when he spied loosely imbedded in the broken ice along the bank an odd-shaped and quaint old bottle which looked as though it might have come over in that receptacle of all New England relics, the Mayflower. Now although the gentleman in question disclaims any attraction to or for bottles in general, this particular bottle proved too alluring, and a closer inspection was the result...