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...audiences at the Museum still continue to bask in the "Sunshine" and droop in the "Shadow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Museum. | 3/18/1891 | See Source »

...large majority as the college mode, and bids fair to become the rage all over the country. The "average girl" herself bore a striking resemblance to current likenesses of Minerva, though the mouth indicated a decided penchant for caramels and ice cream, and there was a suspicious droop of one eyelid, which showed the sensitiveness of the organ in question when exposed to the light. But can any one imagine Minerva with a decidedly marked pair of eyeglasses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/26/1885 | See Source »

...last mortar boards at Columbia are beginning to droop their edges, and they will soon be seen no more at that college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/18/1884 | See Source »

...carburets droop o'er the oxides below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1883 | See Source »

...barn-yard, repeating 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' while she milks the bosky cows. Then in the fall I will leave her, promising, as I press her to my bosom, to return in a week and marry her. Winter will come, but not I; the sweet maid will droop and fade, no longer singing about her daily task; finally she will die and be laid away in the cold earth, while a stranger from the city (that's I) will come and drop a tear over her grave. Say, dearest maid, will you be such an one to me? That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CASTLE IN THE AIR. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

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