Word: grass
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cruelly depriving me of an innocent pleasure. At last there came a fatal evening when there was to be a final meeting of our rulers on the question, and it seemed certain that my enemy would be successful. In anger and bitterness of spirit I walked the grass before the Hall. A fierce gale was raging, and above gigantic wind-torn clouds rushed across the sky. Suddenly, in the gloom, a shape, black as the storm, with eyes as fiery as my wrath, stood by my side and whispered...
...excellence of its appearance. They should either be painted and hung firmly on their hinges, or dispensed with entirely. One of the best features of the Yard at this season of the year is the view under the trees between Holworthy and Grays. The sunlight on the grass in the morning and the slanting shadows of buildings and trees in the afternoon make a remarkably fine view, and this view would be finer still if the cedar-tree in front of University should be taken away during the summer, leaving a clear vista from one end to the other...
Harvard has tried the "shall" and the "may" systems. Unlike the man in the story-book, she began by throwing stones, and those failing she then threw grass. Suppose she sets the example to other institutions by adopting a middle course...
...last the leaves have appeared on the trees and the grass has started from its long rest, so that we again have a pleasant view from our windows. The greenness of the grass-plots, however, only renders more evident the bareness of their edges, where all the grass has been worn away by the feet of those students who are already asserting the privilege of American citizens to despise all warnings to "Keep off the grass." It would not seem too much to expect that the students should do all that is in their power to make the Yard look...
...grass all stained with blood...