Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...crumbling dust is likewise swept away...
...comparison of a sleeping man to an oyster or cockle, his simile in regard to the brains, - that some retain impressions like marble, others like sandstone, others like sand, - and his chemical metaphor about the flames of a Bunsen burner calcining the images impressed on the memory to dust, are fine examples of his wildly poetical temperament. But we must not forget his celebrated figure which made such an impression on us that we remember it in full, and will quote: "The ideas of our youth, like the good children in Sunday-School books, die young, and though cremation...
THERE are at present stored away in a dusty alcove of Gore Hall fifteen or twenty flags won by Harvard men on various waters. They remain there only by sufferance, and are not only in danger of being utterly ruined, but even now have suffered severely from dust and want of care. Once a year these trophies of palmier regattas are brought to light for a few hours, and then returned to be lost for a year, save to some inquisitive student who may stumble upon them in their exile...
...need not remark there is plenty of dust...
...over my one photograph and the little bundles of dried flowers? Reason would say they were given out of compassion only, and utility would bid me throw them away; but sentiment steps in and makes that to be a choicest possession to me, which, to the utilitarian, is but dust and ashes. No; these are things which I cannot give up. They depend upon feelings which lie too deep for logic. They carry with them a certainty which neither logic, facts, nor figures have ever brought to the mind of man. Is it, then, strange or wrong that they should...