Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glassy" floor? A surface of hard sand is not well described by "glassy." To be sure, sand is a necessary ingredient of glass, could the poet have been thinking of any thing so practical. The stanza before the last is as follows...
...could bear this no longer. Rising to my full height, I adjusted my left heel against my right calf. I cocked my eye, and held to it an imaginary eye-glass, Then with an air of tremendous importance I remarked...
From the brittle fields of ice like glass...
...meeting of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Rifle Club, it was decided to introduce glass-ball shooting in addition to rifle matches, and to get up a good team and challenge Yale, if possible. All men who are interested in shooting are requested to meet at 1 Holyoke St., next Monday evening...
...knew him, and I saw that he knew me, for he pretended to be greatly absorbed in a copy of the London Times. But I went up and greeted him heartily; and then I seated myself at the table, and ordered a brace of mutton-chops and a glass of 'alf-and-'alf. Tennyson was eating corned beef and cabbage with great relish, and I noticed that he invariably divided the portion of food upon his plate into triangular bits before conveying the same to his mouth. I asked him his reasons for so doing, but he did not give...