Word: burns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...They burn, whom you sting gladly...
Your blood has hallowed, how your thoughts must burn...
...than that reality, and the horrible drug was taking firmer hold every moment. Of a sudden, an idea came to me. I remembered the peculiar effect of a dose of warm water which a friend had once administered to me by way of a practical joke. My candle was burning, and a little tin drinking-cup, full of water, stood beside it. I snatched up the cup and held it over the flame. If I could warm the water soon enough I should be saved - if not - the laudanum - how cold it was - it was nearly bedtime...
What one of us is not filled with deadly hatred for the South as he gazes on Memorial Hall? Why not tear it down? Just think of the fearful results of our dining there next year! How we will burn with anger towards the South...
...urged that it perpetuates the memory of the late war, and thus tends to foster a certain spirit of hostility between two large sections of the country. Do not histories perpetuate the memory of the war to a still greater extent? Why not burn them up? Why not destroy all the records of the war, for the same reason? This principle, if carried to its natural result, demands their destruction...