Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempt was made last night to burn the military academy at Worcester. Three students, members of a secret society in the school, have been arrested...
...divine Oscar will soon be wafted to Boston, and then we shall see whether the cultured and literary inhabitants of "Modern Athens" burn and are utterly consumed with the fire of precious and supreme transcendentally, or in cold and unappreciative apathy turn their backs upon the king of aesthetes and abhorrer of the common place. Bostonians surely appreciate the beautiful, but will they place in their shrines the chaste sun-flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform...
...goner! [Aloud.] Not quite. [He encloses her fingers in his.] So; that's better [guiding her fingers in rolling]. Now you must light it for me. Here's a match. [He puts the cigarette between his lips. She strikes the match, and, without waiting for the sulphur to burn off, immediately touches it to the end of the cigarette...
...these tedious lamps are! In Mars we burn snow, and that is not so trying to the eyes. Come on, come...
Your parchment will I burn, - 'tis forfeit...