Word: firelight
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...entered. I thought it was Jones come back with more of his foolish, indefinite speeches, and was preparing to read him a short lecture on the besetting sin of intemperance, with pointed allusions, and then treat him to the other boot, when the person came full into the firelight, and seated himself quietly opposite...
...down from their armory in the top of Hollis, or presided at the clam-chowder served up on the annual cruise of the other. He might have been (though no one would have guessed it from his bent body and trembling hands as he sat there in the dying firelight) leader of the trembling crowd of Freshmen on the Delta on one of the first nights of the year, and given "warning," and followed the spinning ball right among the ranks of the Sophomores, coming out victorious, though with torn clothes and covered with scratches. I remember he seemed...