Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lifted, and I could look back at the horror and darkness of the night, which had so suddenly come to an end. But I was long in comprehending what had passed. It seemed like being in another world, with the newness of awakened life and the radiance of a fresh spring day. I rose slowly and tried to think what had happened. Then, like a lightning-flash, the truth was revealed to me. Who had fired that revolver, and why did it make no noise? And where was Stephen? I looked about me in a bewildered way. There...
...broken bats (after the next ball game) get two men who are running for the Pudding to drag the net round them, and the business is done. Stow them away in adjoining cellars until they are wanted. They could be very cheaply kept on Memorial or Fresh Pond soup, whichever is decided to be the most nutritious. You would have complete control of the market, because you would be sure to have ninety-five per cent of the small boys living within a radius of three miles. Prices could be arranged to suit the demand, varying inversely as the laziness...
...writer begins by enumerating some of the features of spring, and in the first three stanzas rolls up a ponderous compound subject, containing, among other things, a relative clause attached to a relative clause, but as yet brings in no predicate; in the fourth stanza he takes a fresh start and sums up the long subject, - still no predicate; here he evidently gives up the idea of getting in that predicate at all, for, putting a semicolon at the end of the fourth stanza, he takes another new start in the fifth, and the rest of the poem is rather...
...change in the rules of the Athletic Association, so far as sparring is concerned. If three men have entered any weight (as was the case on the first Saturday of the Winter Meeting), the winner of the first bout is obliged to spar with a man who is fresh and vigorous, which fact gives the latter a great superiority over the former. We suggest to the Association that, in a case like this, the final bout be postponed until the last day of the meeting, and be decided when both men are unwearied by participation in any previous sparring...
Tootsy's visit, however, had not been without its consequences. During the first part of her stay she had made the acquaintance of a minor of '84, and a very charming young man, - if he was a trifle fresh...