Word: draught
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Unaware, the draught he took...
Tossed in jeopardy on the prone sea, or waiting in anguish by a sick-bed while a human spirit wags and gutters in the draught of death, men pray rashly, and implore with extravagant promises the mercy of the Deity. If Christ will deliver them out of their peril, they swear to burn every evening a tall candle before His Mother's shrine; if he will let their darling live, they will erect a church to his glory. The sea grows calm; disease leaves the wracked body. Men smile, and forthwith forget both their anguish and their vows...
...annual exhibition of the American Institute of Architects. They pinned debonair ribbons, blazoned with the word "Guest," upon their lapels; stone men cemented up their differences, iron men welded their friendships, plumbers soldered sound opinions with a friendly pipe, draughtsmen were seen slipping away, arm in arm, for a draught. At meals they listened to famed speakers: Harvey W. Corbe President of the Architectural League, Manhattan; D. Evert Waid, President of the American Institute of Architects; Robert W. DeForest, patron of the arts, Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, famed British designer of the Queen's Doll House, who arrived from Delhi...
Such was the attendance at memorial services for Woodrow Wilson, held at a joint session of Congress. Edwin Anderson Alderman, President of the University of Virgina, and friend of Woodrow Wilson, delivered a eulogy of the dead that was perhaps a bitter draught for some of his hearers...
Fortunately, the Enquirer cannot persecute its discredited opponents; fortunately, the intellectual standard of the tolerant Enquirer is not to be imposed upon the professors; fortunately, the draught of hemlock is not to be administered to these "corrupters of youth". It is to be hoped that some charitable reader will present the editor with a ticket to "Saint Joan", if it visits Cincinnati. Perhaps he will recognize his cousin, the Curate, to whom "nothing that an Englishman thinks is heresy...