Word: floating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...imminent danger to the boat and their companions, Messrs. Keith and Bunney, Horatius-like, leapt into the foaming flood and swam to the nearest land, which proved to be the Charles river embankment, some 50 feet distant. The remainder of the crew pulled the boat to the Union Club float, but there was no one there to assist them in landing, while the heavy sea running threatened to dash them against the float. Another chance was given for some one to distinguish himself, and though each wished to show himself worthy of the crew of '83, Mr. Sherwood settled...
Together would we float, dear...
...literature and art which denote a civilization that is well shaken down and settled. It is supposed that these elements only come to the surface when a civilization begins to rot from its own tedium, that they are the gases therefrom caught in balloons and allowed to float about in the air till they collapse of their own accord. But this is evidently untrue, or Boston must have jumped from the cradle into long trousers without stopping for bibs, pinafores and knee-breeches. The latter is the case, and Mrs. De Sorosis was Boston's wet-nurse...
...steamer Manitoba, from Boston for Glasgow, is ashore near Greenock. Efforts to get her off have thus far proved ineffectual, but it is expected that she will float soon...
...float has been thoroughly repaired, almost renewed, and the bridges have all been put in position. Braces are being put between the bridges to the main float to prevent bobbing...