Word: dust
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...particulars may be omitted here, with the remark that they comprise matters of latitude and longitude, elevation above the sea, prevalence of snow, proximity of fuel and water, means of access, statistics or approximate information as to rainfall at different seasons, prevalence of clouds mists, smoke of forest fires, dust, high winds, frequency of thunder-storms, duration of rainy or cloudy season, etc. - Advertiser...
...present, to gain the most rope possible during five minutes. All the four men lay on the rope, raising with a spring, as if to get a new drop, when they heaved. In the out-door pulls, the teams burrowed holes for their feet, pulling furiously, and covered with dust...
...Waft of Summer" follows, which, though a good idea, fails to show itself on account of the words used. We cannot conceive of the wind "loitering" in "snow dust" that is "sculpturisque and fine...
...present state of recesses. Such is the character of the book, and it will certainly pay any one who has a spare moment when in the library to look it over, and think that he is looking upon signatures written by hands that have been mouldering away into dust for upwards of two centuries...
...long years have passed since these gay folk lived and loved and fought and made merry in the old Palatinate. Havoc and desolation have swept the city time and again since then. They had their day and went to rest; and their bones have long since dropped quietly to dust. Yet some weird spell has called them from the grave. Here they are once more, riding through these same streets, with the same trappings, the same armor, the same music and, in the case of historical personages, almost the same features. Professor Jacob Mycillus goes by in a great...