Word: die
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Heinrich von Kleist: October 14. "Der Zerbrochene Krug." - Oct. 21. "Die Hermannsschlacht." - October 28. "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg...
...impersonates a statue, a village belle, Mr. Irving, a barber, and a dry goods clerk with infinite ease and cleverness. Mr. Richards' imitations of Couldock and Bouccicault are exceedingly laughable. There is no lack of pretty music, pretty faces and pretty figures. Adonis is like Venice - "See it and die; for you have then seen...
Heinrich von Kleist: October 14. "Der Zerbrochene Krug." - October 21. "Penthesilea und Die Hermannsschlacht." - October 28. "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg...
...been uncommonly smooth for the last few weeks. The air up the river is delight fully cool and bracing, and consequently the oarsmen are all feeling wonderfully well. To use an old boatman's words, who rowed me across Gale's Ferry the other day, "The people don't die at all round these parts. No sir. There's Jim Smith over there, you see, hoeing his garden, well he's lived to be a hundred and two, and is likely to live as long again. There's no graveyards round here. If a man wants to die he crawls...
...pitches amid a repitition of the scenes of the previous inning on a larger scale. Sheppard flied to Foster. Brigham made a hit, but Dann flied out to Allen who threw to Smith, making a double play and shutting the side out. Harvard came to the bat prepared to die hard. Willand hit safely amid wild cheers. Allen knocked a foul ball, but the umpire refused to allow it, although the ball hit Allen on the shoulder and became a dead ball anyway, and he was thrown out at first; Willard reaching second, going third on Marsh's error. Foster...