Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complaints about the unpleasant surroundings at the late breakfast table. Every time a man is unfortunate enough to sleep past nine o'clock, he is obliged to breakfast amidst sweepings and dustings and scrubbings, whose general character is not appetizing, to say the least. He is surrounded by a bulwark of chairs piled upon the surrounding tables, and is serenaded by the clatter of plates and hardware. Now all this might be obviated with very little difficulty. Why not have the late breakfast table in the little side-room corresponding to the auditor's room? To be sure, this room...
...bark Bulwark from Yokohama bound to Puget Sound foundered at sea March 1. Eighteen men were lost...
ended a stirring invocation to the "Harvard Corps, our bulwark and our pride...
...bulwark of his race, - at last retired...