Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which "small cottages" and "elegant equipages" are contrasted, and the striking originality of the epithets - as "golden sunsets" and "murmuring streams" - are worthy of notice. The figures of the various spirits are draped with a modest care truly admirable; the golden mantle of the Sun-King and the green and brown dresses of the wood-nymphs are carried with all the natural grace with which the clothes of Vottina are worn by the immortal figures of Michael Angelo in the Sistine Chapel. This article indicates great literary culture, - of the sort which can be obtained from the shelves of Sunday...
Pres., W. L. Chase; Vice-Pres., R. S. Sauzade; Sec. and Treas., Joshua Stetson; Directors, F. L. Green and P. A. Post...
...Green 6 5 Watson...
...peculiar. Unable to concentrate his energies upon the literary and scientific subjects which are laid before him, he generally determines to relinquish them. At the same time he is by no means idle. He is often to be seen in the nearest billiard-room, gazing wistfully at the green tables and the clicking balls. If by any odd chance he is asked to join in the game, he readily accepts, and the manner in which he handles his cue is ample proof of years of diligent practice. The duty of paying rarely falls to his lot. With the extraordinary effigies...
...back on the lounge, reading Middlemarch. In Holworthy is a party engaged in a "square game of draw poker," following the example of our Minister to England. In the fifth story of Thayer we find a man with a large Liddell and Scott before him, and a green shade over his eyes. He must be a Freshman. We enter a room in Weld, where one occupant looks up from his solitary pipe to inform us that his chum has gone out to take a run up to Porter's for crew-training...