Word: buckets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...others were so near shooting him that he came round in no time. So she is going down the mine to-morrow, - and, by the way, you had better go down at the same time. We've got nothing as yet but a hand-windlass, with a big bucket on the end of a rope, so that it's like going down a magnified well; but if Elsie can do it, I guess...
...dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared and attempted to quench the conflagration. Repeated efforts, aided by a snow-shovel, at last prevailed, and only the charred remains of six once flourishing and prosperous barrels remained to mark the path of the fire-fiend. Late in the night the drowsy slumberer was awakened...
...same ground, and in other instances there have been disputes in regard to presumed encroachments by tennis players on the cricket and la crosse fields. The man "Tom," who lays out the courts, seems to have become a self-constituted authority, whose interests extend little beyond his white-wash bucket, and getting the money for his work. The popularity of tennis this spring seems to be on the increase, and numerous claims have been made on the ground available for courts, so that our fields are now closely scored. The distribution of these courts is remarkable. They lie at every...
...fresh - as - as a freshly cleaned blackboard on which I shall stamp the imprint of my superior intellect. She must be a country girl, in fact. I will come and board for the summer months at her father's house; daily I will accompany her to the old oaken bucket, and fill and carry her pail to the house; during the day we will roam hand in hand through the woods while I pour sweet poetry in her ear; then at even-time we will go to the meadow and bring the cattle home, and I will stand...
...Seniors, it is said, have been improving some of late. One does n't sit up straight at finish and wobbles; two hangs and looks out of the boat; three meets at time and feathers under the water badly; four buckets badly, lets his oar fly to full reach, and slivers out; five slivers out, is inclined to bucket, does n't hold his arm stiff enough, and snaps his head; six does n't reach far enough, hangs, meets, and slivers out; seven lets his oar fly up on full reach, and does n't always...