Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...simplest method of separating the gold from the earth was soon superseded by the "cradle." The requiring men to work together occasioned the system of "partnership" which has become so celebrated in song and story. Some lonely miners made some profit by using a knife in cutting the gold from the crevices of rock where the water of the brooks had washed it. This crevice-mining afforded a very precarious living, and these solitary miners became very dangerous members of society. Very few Indians were hired by the miners. The Brooks party of Eastermens on the way to the mining...
...students of the University of Missouri, have a paper called Truth, of which we see it remarked that: "If it were crushed to earth, it would have its value as top-dressing." The editor writes with a far western flavor. To him the faculty of the university of Missouri are "cranks, idiots, sneaks, knaves and dead-beats." One of the female teachers is vividly alluded to as a "pop-eyed apparition," and the editor has recourse to poetry to describe one of the faculty...
...conscious superiority, he tells me of them, I become so jealous as almost to grow to hate him. Why, a short time ago he dreamed of the end of the world; and the rocks were cleft, as he stood before the old University library at Cambridge. Suddenly the earth yawned, and there bustled out of the chasm, with a roar from a long silver trumpet, and the tintinnabulous sound of bells, the archangel, clad in white robes of dazzling brilliancy. From Thayer and Matthews and Hollis and Weld and Stoughton and Holworthy and Grays, rushed the frightened students. They stopped...
...children are growing up to be more supercilious than their father. They are still more cold and haughty. They smile at the people as they pass by to the church and say 'How foolish! We are the only wise ones of the earth.' They have no regard for any but the few that are like them, and they are few indeed...
...scheme, though imagination represented it just as being fond of a pretty, lively, black little lady, who, to oblige me, stayed in Edinburg, and I very genteelly paid her expenses," This horror of immorality lasted until he had freed himself from the woman. There is no possession on earth so valuable as an india-rubber conscience...