Word: earths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ministers of Christ with large incomes, living in finely furnished houses, with wives and families, and stately butlers, and servants in livery, giving dinners all in the best style, so descending and gracious, waving their hands, and mincing their words as if they were the cream of the earth, but without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white tie. And the bishops and deans come with women tucked under their arm; and they can't enter church but a fine powdered man runs first with a cushion for them to sit on and a warm sheepskin...
...friend said, "it is young you know." We enter the Chemical laboratory, but feel constrained by the size of the room and depart. We pass from room to room, hall to hall, gaze at this and wonder at that, until in sheer exhaustion, we descend to earth again. We pass out thro' the "Reception Room." We look about for the Amherst man, but with a shiver we become conscious of the gaze of a pair of stern eyes that bespeak the man of blue, and remember that we must hurry to the depot if we do not wish to miss...
...April, and the eight turf courts ready in the latter part of May. The other courts, of which the Association will try to have a larger number, will be laid out and rolled as well as possible. Their positions will be the same as those of the future earth courts, that we may see whether there is any inconvenience on account of sun, etc. The fee of membership for the spring will be 50 cents. The members of the Association can use the new made clay courts on payment of 10 cents a piece for the afternoon, and the charge...
...their guide; they descended into the deep dungeons of old castles, and he read the inscriptions on the walls, requiring no light. "It is wonderful," cried the wise men, "what power of sight this man has! With him we may venture into the darkest recesses of the earth." They traveled on and crossed the seas, and came finally to a large city, and in this city was a great university, and this university had a building famous for its darkness. Few men knew what was within its walls. The arrival of the wise men and their companion with the powerful...
...heard so much about lately. They are easy to take and are so varied that they cannot become tiresome. All the signs can be read in the photograph as clearly as in the original, and snob. is forever sending the pictures to his fair friends, who wonder what on earth the sign of "Boarders Wanted," "Hair cut and shave, 50 ets.," or "Reserved for Ladies," can mean. I will say nothing about the uses of a camera during the summer, they are too obvious to mention; but if any one will call at my room I can show him photographs...