Word: grass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...friend safely launched, let me tell you what I can about these people. There are two women I know by the window; they are talking about somebody, and if you like "feminities" you will hear something interesting from that standpoint, I am sure. One of them is a grass-widow (cause, spiritual incompatibility), and the other is a bona fide widow (cause, a few years' bad cookery with digestive powers in favor of the lady now before you). They are talking about Mrs. De Sorosis, and as I am a meek little person myself they do not mind...
...Grass widow. - I am sure I never saw him anywhere; she always goes about with that niece of here...
...space between Boylston and the library, recently filled in, has been bordered with sod, and will immediately be sown with grass seed...
...Bonheur, Peyrol Bonheur, Verboeckboven, Van Marcke, Voltz, Burnier, Ceramano, Jacque and Schenck, master and pupil, all are well represented. Rosa Bonheur's picture is small but inimitable; little variety of color but strong and natural, - a sheep, a black one at that, covered up in a wealth of green grass. There is one of the earlier attempts of Van Marcke. It is not marked by that hard, firm finish which his later works possess...
...pupils, De Quivieres, a rising young Parisian, has one of the most striking pictures in the exhibition. A more clever combination of drawing and coloring is seldom seen. The idea, too, is pleasing: A young girl resting in most careless fashion on a bank of deep green grass, glancing seaward over a stretch of lighter green water, so natural that one longs for summer to come again that he may experience the reality. The pose of the figure is most graceful, being relieved by a light airy summer dress, dainty gloves a la Bernhardt, a cute little pair of opera...