Word: facings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...After each trick the cards shall be turned face downwards and when the trick has been thus turned and quitted, no player shall look back at any turned card...
...first vesper services of which we have any record were those in the groves of Eden. There, before man had fallen, Adam and Eve had many sweet communings face to face with God. How happy must they have been, as the evening twilight was falling, with their loving Lord shedding blessings upon their innocence. But another hour came, when man trembled before God in the first consciousness of his sin and degradation. The heavenly harmonies were broken. There was no joy in that vesper hour-the last in Eden...
...lonely prison cell, where her life goes out, she realized fully the sweetness and dramatic strength of the role. No one will soon forget the picture she made at the close of the opera, when the bare prison walls opened and Marguerite is seen amid the clouds, her face picturing the rapture she has lost on earth...
Sanders Theatre was crowded last evening by an audience which, even more than at the previous lectures, showed its quick interest and depth of feeling by loud applause at the appearance of each well known face upon the sheet. Grant, Sheridan, Sherman, Hooker and, above all, Thomas were enthusiastically received...
Never did general face more overwhelming difficulties. But Grant rose to the occasion. Base of supplies, or no base, he resolved to trust everything to rapidity and boldness. Grand Bluff was left far behind, and with his whole column in light marching order, living on the country, he marched straight for Jachson. Napoleon himself never planned a bolder stroke. The enemy were confounded by its swiftness and sharpness. Johnson's force was scattered; Pemberton, bewildered, tried to cut, at Grand Bluff, a line of communication which never existed. Soon he, too, was overwhelmed by the triumphant Federal advance. At Champion...