Word: fire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...striking forward said "Do now one of two things Thorkell foul-mouth, sheath your sword and set down or I'll drive the axe into your head, and cleave you down into the shoulders." Thorkell sat down. Njal and his sons are attacked and the house set on fire. Skarphethin makes a grand defence, and on his death his enemies said it was better than they expected for no one feared him dead...
...next sixty years many colonies were sent out. Certain numbers of the colonists came from Norway, but a good part were from Ireland and Scotland. The first settlers had no boundaries to their lands, but later a man could have as much land as he could carry a fire about in a day, and a woman as much as she could lead a calf about. With a stronger tide of settlement came stronger lights of settlement and land was purchased by goods or by the sword. In 927 a Norseman drew up a land law or constitution for Iceland, taking...
...Huntington delivered a lecture on meteoric fire balls, shooting stars and comets in the Lowell Institute course last evening...
...city, since it is a business corporation, is entirely outside of politics; Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies, IV, No. 10. - (a) It is concerned with (1) Protection of its citizens from fire, riots, unsanitary conditions, etc. (2) Carrying on public works; e.g., street-paving, water-works, parks, etc; Lalor I, 463, Bryce I, 589, 598, 610, II, 60. - (b) It requires officers of great executive ability. - (c) Good local government is of the first importance to the citizens...
...keenest interest. In this delightful book, Mr. Bolles gives us "the chronicles of a stroller in New England from January to June" which embody in some twenty-six chapters the observations of a thorough Nature-lover who turns his back on his comfortable Cambridge home and cheerful back-log fire on many a day, when the lazily-inclined would hesitate about going out, and spends it in studying animal life within a couple of hours' walk of Cambridge...