Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tier of seats recently erected on Holmes Field between the college hospital and the Hasty Pudding building will prove a considerable addition to the attractions of the field. While the style of architecture prevailing in the structure is not startlingly beautiful, yet, by contrast with the crazy, gaunt, old benches, it is rather refreshing to the eye. Moreover, the space between the two buildings is as effectually blocked as it would be if it were filled up with the fence which the authorities deny us, and thus the services of our policeman may be employed at some more exposed portion...
...admit, for the present volume certainly does not surpass the efforts of previous editors, and we note some rather prominent inaccuracies. One is apt to get rather an unfortunate first impression from the cover. Have you ever, in riding along some solitary country road, been confronted by two gaunt posts bearing a signboard with the ominous legend "Look out for the engine." Such is the general appearance of the cover of the Index. Two tropical palm trees support a sign, on which is prominently blazoned the title of the work. Beneath, we are regaled with a view taken from...
Jarvis Field has a gaunt and lonely appearance, now that the seats have been removed to Holmes...
Among the British coins are a number of tokens struck in honor of such dukes as Warwickshire, John of Gaunt, and Wellington. Also there are some silver tokens struck by large mercantile houses...
...middle of an open space in the aforesaid settlement, there stood a thin, gaunt specimen of mankind, holding in his hand a weather-beaten hunting-case watch, whose virtues he was expounding thus: "My friends, I would call your attention to this elegant silver watch; but before asking for a bid I will give you a short history of its career, and show you some of its good points, so that you may see that you have a veritable treasure in your midst. In the first place, let me tell you that this beautiful timepiece was ordered by Lord Gladstone...