Word: gallant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the Borsair is by no means easy to get along with. The next man was pitched out, and the third scraped the airy vault of heaven with what seemed to every one a home run; but little they recked of the noble L. F., the heroic Blister; this gallant man, with measured step and song, froze to the sphere with one hand while running backward, and the Hod-lifters retired with no runs...
...they're off! Huzza! a brave start. With such science on board, they scarce can fail to reach the bottom safely. Alas! "the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley," and this party ganged the same way. An unfortunate rock intervenes, and they separate, - the gallant leader measured the shortest distance between the sled and a neighboring tree; the youthful prodigy described the arc of a great circle and landed in a snow-bank; the large gentleman remained stationary, remarking, " This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I"; the last, describing a parabolical...
...gallant vessel leapt along...
...days of July, 1878 - redounds so directly and justly to the glory of our common country, that the governments and people of every section thereof should manifest their appreciation of the glorious victory there won by the most enthusiastic demonstrations of commendation and praise of the gallant four who so manfully upheld the honor of their native land on the anniversary of its natal day at the capital of the nation from whom a century ago we won our political independence, and who, until this great victory of Columbia College, claimed to be our superiors in manly sports and athletic...