Word: glows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then on a sudden, as by a single flash, the old castle burst into a glare of crimson fire. Green light appeared below it; but all else was utter gloom. It was a wonderful sight. Every nook and cranny of the great building was flooded with the fiery glow, as it stood out in unrelieved intensity from the black mountain side. Thus it must have looked when Tilly paused on the Terrace to look back at the glorious bon-fire he had kindled. The majestic ruin, majestic even in its downfall, bore in its glowing sides the marks...
...York World tells entertaining fibs about Yale, it is merely the New York World's way of saying that Yale is powerful and renowned, and that people wish to know all they can about her. Harvard too has often been flattered in this manner. She and Yale can glow with common pride...
...bright face beams with a ruddy glow...
...writer continues, "the genuine college spirit shone out. Harvard was really there. One saw it, sensed it, distinguished the flavor of it. Some seventy of the alumni were present, besides a few invited guests. They were mostly of the younger generation, but not all. All, however, had the glow and freshness of the student's life still bright upon them. A finer company of gentlemen could probably not be found anywhere in the world. A company of brighter, fresher and purer faces we never saw, and shall probably never see. There were present, direct from home and the common mother...
...thirty-five years, is an interesting event in the career of a distinguished and honored man. During the generation which has placed him among the foremost of our men of letters, Dr. Holmes has been devoted also to scientific study, and the brilliancy of his wit and the tender glow of his poetic genius have but enhanced the value of his professional teaching. The Professor, the Autocrat and the Poet have been interchangeable, and his latest published lecture to his classes is as notable for various and accurate and unusual learning as it is for crisp and charming literary skill...