Word: door
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strokes means either rise or retire; eight means meals; six means prayers, and so on. Imagine the maiden of that day listening, half awake, to the signal strokes, and then wildly leaping into cavalry boots and ulster, - we mean balmorals and water-proof, - see her rushing to the chapel door, only to find that she counted six instead of ten, and can now return and dress at her leisure...
Pale man said, "Pull the bell." I passed into a gloomy passage and pulled a bell; a distant tinkle sounded at the end of the passage, a door opened, and a solemn man in a girdle received me. In the distance I caught sight of a room like a hospital ward, - narrow beds, exhausted sufferers. Something was the matter with my guide; instead of speaking he pointed. I longed to get out into the open air. He directed me by signs to a little room and a girdle. After girdling I followed him to a door; it opened...
...water, a tumbler of cold water was administered. I said to myself, "I 'm one of those that can't stand it; but they are going to put me through at all risks." I was roused from my stupor by silent attendant's shaking me, and pointing to a door. Tried to go through the door, but backed out instantly. After another effort, succeeded, and found myself again in a chair; thermometer here was 30 higher, - 160 in the shade...
...treated Il Trovatore," will be given at both performances. Tickets, $1.00, can be obtained of Mr. A. C. Tower, H'y 16, or of Mr. A. M. Sherwood, M. 17. All persons desiring tickets are requested to make application at once, as no tickets will be sold at the door...
...soon as an estimate of the cost is made, work will be begun. Beside repairing the floats, bridges, and rests, the upper floor will be much altered. All the small rooms and partitions will be taken down, and the whole floor divided by a partition running from door to door. On one side of this partition will be a bath-room, with two baths and five lavatoirs, a janitor's room, and a large club-room; on the other, there will be twenty-six lockers arranged in five rows, at right angles to the sides. On both sides dormer-windows...