Word: glare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this New Haven weather? No! it is snow, rain, slush, fog, mist, puddles, glare ice, falling avalanches from the caves, falling snow-balls from the open windows. No walking, no driving, no sleighing, wet feet, damp clothes, no appetite, Lenten housekeeping, everything gloomy, papers publishing about the "Suicide Club," men grumpy, money scarce, and your umbrella stolen. [Courant...
...anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared and attempted to quench the conflagration. Repeated efforts, aided by a snow-shovel, at last prevailed, and only the charred remains of six once...
...steps of University were yesterday covered with a glare of ice, making the passage up and down difficult and dangerous...
...this time Yung had kindled a fire; and the ruddy glare lit up the valley, and sparkled far off on the sea. "We must keep up a beacon-light," said Yung gayly. "Now let us make arrangements for the night...
...warmer than I thought, although my companion did not seem distressed by this circumstance. The sunlight surged in wavy lines across the dusty road before me. Every object I saw took on an unnatural glare. My head was hot and heavy, my veins all afire; but I kept on. Even with him beside me, I kept on. He talked cheerily, and I answered in monosyllables at first, then at random, wildly; I saw him looking at me with an expression of curious concern; and I saw a spot of red, like blood, in his left cheek. That is the reason...