Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...pleasant group of shorts and longs...
...beds were ranged along the wall, on which reclined or squatted several individuals simply attired in a short strip of linen cloth. Opposite the entrance hung a large picture of what I at first thought a ballet-troupe in distress, but I afterwards found that it was only a group of Dr. Dio Lewis's pupils. A big man, in a choker coming up to his ears, and no cravat, told me, in a hollow voice, to put my valuables in a little drawer and to hang the key around my neck. I had always understood that the Turks were...
There's a "group" on his desk which reminds of burlesque...
WERE the many queer things which have been left as transmittenda in the various rooms the College brought together, they would form an interesting and a motley group. Though perhaps they could not be arranged artistically, yet the ideas suggested by a look at the individual objects would be strangely contrasted...
...skull, with a few names artistically painted on the exterior; there is also pasted thereon "Byron's Apostrophe to a Skull." A human skull in this heterogeneous heap! When I reflect that "history sometimes repeats itself," the inference drawn is not a pleasant one. I might increase this group indefinitely; enough objects have been given to show what are used as transmittenda...