Word: feat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SHOOTING.DR. CARVER, at San Francisco, Cal., broke with a rifle 886 glass balls out of 1,000, sprung from a trap at 21 yards rise. This is a most wonderful feat, especially as it was accomplished with a single ball, and not with shot...
...rate, he is not aware of it, and proceeds to lecture the young lady on the sin of flirtation. She is so cut to the heart that she persuades the horse to run away, throws the reins out of the buggy, and faints. By a wonderful gymnastic feat the Puppy seizes the reins and stops the horse. Upon remonstrating with Beatrice for her peculiar behavior, she replies, with great presence of mind, in a quotation from Cherbuliez' Meta Holdenis (which, however, is not given as a quotation), "Since I had not your heart, I was determined that no one else...
...Quixote was very foolish; for the writer, though ignorant of Spanish previously, with a smack of Italian and some French and Latin, was able at the end of the course not only to follow the text, but to find the place when several pages were omitted, - a prodigious feat...
With some poetic feat...
...editorial pen, or how my chum ridiculed my enthusiasm. He consented, however, to humor me in my harmless delusion; and on the appointed afternoon, accompanied me, guide-book in hand in search of historic notoriety. I do not intend to describe the interesting places that I visited; that feat has been eloquently achieved by the before-mentioned guide-book. It is only of their influence on my character that I mean to speak. I had always been lukewarm on the subject of the fighting and bleeding of my grandsires. To tell the truth, it is said that...