Word: damp
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...terrific fire-damp explosion took place Saturday afternoon in mine No. 10 of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., at Lanesford, Pa. Sixteen miners were seriously injured...
...Damp with the dews of sleep, a smooth white hand...
...appearance. Neither can it boast utility, for the toil-worn student cannot cast himself beneath its grateful shade; inasmuch as its shade is not grateful, but rather to such a degree baneful, that, oppressed by the perennial gloom the grass grows but sparsely beneath its branches, and the damp, bare ground seems doomed to a lasting blight. Standing with its humble stature among the high-topped, overarching elms that surround it, this poor beech looks doubly stunted and deformed. To the occupants of Grays it is a constant eye-sore, as it seriously obstructs their view. To those rooming...
Darkness was before my eyes and a damp like the sweat of death was gathered on my forehead, as I sank unconscious to the floor...
...wailing winds and damp...