Word: cast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cast a glance o'er the whole of the picture...
...went, and the heavy train leaped and jumped from side to side as we shot through the darkness. How white their faces looked at the car window, and how they screamed! I howled at them for very joy, and I felt the engine leap forward under me; they had cast off the train, and away we flew, the engine and I. Now the stations flew by, bright as live coals in a black, burnt desert, and the men shrank back as I flew away. There were lights ahead, a passenger train, hurrah! death is close after them; the train goes...
...cast of "OEdipus Tyrannus," to be produced in the spring, is as follows...
...following day I volunteered my services as an instructor in swimming, and gave my pupil her first experimental lectures at high tide; while the Yale man, from the shelter of a pile of drift-wood, cast rancorous glances at us and soliloquized in good round New Haven English...
Towards evening I awoke, and with returning consciousness came the thought of Amy and what had become of her. I rushed downstairs, and, for a moment, felt an infinite relief at seeing her on the piazza, but when she cast a look of unspeakable contempt upon me, and walked away, my sense of relief gave way to that of despair. I knew not what to make of it, and when in the evening she went off with the Yale man, my feelings were the quintessence of wretchedness. That night I hardly slept a wink, and my chum declared afterward that...