Word: grand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course was a straight-away one, three miles in length. Precisely at three o'clock, as the starting-gun was fired, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five oars were dipped simultaneously into the water with a unison that was truly grand...
...either side by a majestic line of time-worn benches, must no longer stand an eyesore to the artistic proprietors of the mansions lying beneath its frowning walls. Truly this is an age of improvement, and no doubt a year hence a neat Gothic club-house with its grand stand and gargoyled tower will be kept from the vulgar gaze by rows of hedge many cubits high. How glad we should be to bid farewell to the ancient structure! There is but one thing to mar our joy. "How can we bear to leave you," O boxes, whence we issued...
ADELINA PATTI recently sang in the Huguenots, at the Grand Opera in Paris. Nearly eight thousand dollars were cleared, and we have particular reason to be thankful for the success, as the whole sum is to be devoted to the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine...
...Caesar's grand old palace, looking down...
Have ridden several times on the Erie and Grand Trunk Railroads, and have had more or less experience in Cambridge horse-cars off the track, but never was so jolted in my life before. Every bone in my body is apparently dislocated. In agony I shout "Whoa" to the horse, but with no effect. I turn around and entreat the boy to stop the animal. Like an idiot that he is, he only repeats, "Shoe blacking," and persists in whipping the galloping brute. My eye-glasses shake off, and become a total wreck in the bottom...