Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first night of the Greek play at present prices. The corner could be very easily arranged. Get all the tennis nets in the Society building, and make a long seine of them by tying the ends together. When the small fry run in for the broken bats (after the next ball game) get two men who are running for the Pudding to drag the net round them, and the business is done. Stow them away in adjoining cellars until they are wanted. They could be very cheaply kept on Memorial or Fresh Pond soup, whichever is decided...
...silence was broken by the appearance of a small row-boat containing two people. One was a young man dressed in a comfortable-looking yachting costume, very much browned, however, by exposure to a New Hampshire sun; the other was a young woman dressed in much the same manner, except so far as the distinguishing marks of female attire went, with a very jaunty and coquettish hat set atop of a cluster of very bewitching brown curls. He was rowing rather leisurely toward the little white beach - if such it may be called - that bordered the inlet whither they...
...Broken-hearted with despair...
...surprise, that nearly all the lamps in the street were extinguished, and on his stopping for a moment to view the scene he heard a crash close behind him, and saw the only remaining lamp on Marathon Street - the one in front of Miltiades and Son's drug-store - broken and extinguished. Mr. O'Phlynn hastened at once in the opposite direction to ascertain if any of the miscreants were approaching from that quarter, but met no one, with the exception of the Rev. James W. Agesilaus, Pastor of the St. Poseidon Baptist Church on West OEdipus Street, whom...
...then the gentlemanly clerk knew that he was dealing with a poor little crushed and broken heart trying to drown its grief, and gently sidling behind the soda-fountain, he shed briny tears into the raspberry syrup...