Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Rose then the chief of his gang, the scurrile, buffoon-like Thersites...
...large, comfortable-looking man; and last a dark-bearded, stem-looking man, whose looks belie his nature. And now 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...
EVER since the river closed the candidates for the crew have been steadily at work. Five afternoons in the week, from half after four until five o'clock, the crew works in two gangs; one gang rowing at the hydraulic machines in their recently refitted gymnasium in the boat-house, while the other runs between two and three miles...
...been forced to eat her own words in regard to the foul last summer. But when trouble is ahead, liars and blacklegs resort to every imaginable way of escaping the impending evil. We will, with the public, believe the daily papers of that time, in preference to a gang of fellows who, if they will deliberately smash a rival's boat, will resort to lying, eating their own words, or any meanness that sneaks are capable of. We exceedingly regret that this is the last number of the Spectator which we edit...