Word: gauntlet
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...needed gun-boats and transports. By a wonderful feat of engineering, a canal, six miles long, but shallow, was cut across a submerged peninsular, from loop to loop of the river and the frail transports thus passed around the batteries. A gun-boat, the Carondelet, boldly ran the gauntlet of the fort at night, running so close under the banks that, before the guns could be sufficiently depressed, she was out of range...
...bonfires and fireworks, or indeedgeneral demonstrations of any kind, let them take place on the field where the victory was won, rather than on the street or in the college yard. Jarvis is far better in its facilities and its position, and we cannot afford to sun the gauntlet of the city authorities or to put our trees and college buildings in jeopardy. A little discretion may avert a deal of mischief...
...covered with what looked very like a dropsical cricket pad on a large scale, extending from the chest to the knees. The sword arm, from the wrist to the shoulder, was then padded and bandaged to three times its natural size, and the hand guarded by a thick leathern gauntlet. Lastly, a pair of spectacles, rimmed with metal, protected the eyes. The schlager, or duelling sword, is then placed in his hand - a nasty looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged...
...finished and it is high time that the college took some measures to remove this cess-pool. It both breeds contageous disease and is a nusiance to every one who passes by. No one can take ladies to a game on Holmes when they have to run such a gauntlet of poisonous smells. May the faculty speedity take some measure to remove this nuisance...
...plenty of time and space, we would like to pick up the gauntlet thrown down to us by the Oberlin Review. We would like to comment on the extreme weight of its articles (O Heavens! how heavy they were); to praise the judicious arrangement of the paper, putting its best column (the Exchanges) near the beginning; to - But really we have n't any more time to waste on this sheet of "Our Boys and Girls...