Word: glides
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whiskey, and the smoking of worse tobacco. One accomplishment they have, however, - a wonderful skill in poling. One man stands in the bow, and one in the stern, and with marvelous dexterity they push their crank barks up a very rapid current, and on their return let it slowly glide down stream, avoiding the rocks. Our course now is up the stream, we on the bank, and the guides in the canoes with the baggage. At times, however, the advance along the bank is impracticable, and then we take to the canoes; and our advice to the uninitiated...
...unfortunate Mayor became the next object of attention to his ferocious captors; hoisting him by means of a derrick to the top of a lofty telegraph-pole, they compelled him to dance the "Boston Dip" and "New York Glide" along the wires, while singing "Gentle Spring," and whistling "The Flying Trapeze"; in addition to this he was compelled to play the Marseillaise Hymn, on a trombone, and execute Die Wacht am Rhein on a violin, at the same time...
Though the summer boats now glide...