Word: dankness
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...that the grouse had survived the wet, were as plentiful as usual. As The Twelfth, the historic August opening of Britain's grouse season approached, the reports turned dismal again. ''Grouse disease" had thinned out the coveys. Day before The Twelfth the moors were reported soggy, dank. Consequently Scotsmen anxiously assembled at the Edinburgh and Glasgow railroad stations to note how many rich Englishmen and Americans were coming up from London for that most decorous of outdoor sports, grouse shooting from butts...
...Mare never speaks out, never clothes his spooks in a simple declarative manner. They might be merely states of mind, queer tricks of sensation, strange coincidences. There is nothing solid in this dank mistiness that you can lay your finger on, but you feel it. Sometimes it chills you to the bone...
...dank rubber-growing state of Para last week a party of stocky little Cayapas Indians went on the rampage, invaded the village of Cardoso, killed 21 persons, cannily kidnapped three children as hostages to protect themselves from pursuit. From the state capital, Para's authorities despatched a detachment of 30 soldiers to what remains of Cardoso, which they were expected to reach in about eight days by river boat and rail...
...office of Secretary of the Treasury. Haughtily the prisoner refused. "I will not accept the Treasury post," said he, "while I am held in jail on the ridiculous charge that I am a revolutionary. I am not a revolutionist!" And sulky Señor Velasquez sat down in the dank depths of his historic dungeon...
...Perry in Harvard College, which was scheduled by the authorities that be for Saturday morning at 9 o'clock in Sever 11 and the course was English 41. But some unscrupulous clique has decided to do away with this lecture, and do away with it in a secret and dank manner, so the place wouldn't be overrun with Vagabonds. But if a Vagabond wishes to overrun, he overruns, and that's that. The dastardly deed came to the ears of this Guardian of Vagabondia and today he exposes the whole thing. Bliss Perry will not lecture Saturday morning...