Word: hand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...raised his fat right hand...
...Works of Turner - last Saturday at one o'clock. He gave an interesting sketch of the history of landscape painting, and showed very clearly what was Turner's true position as an artist. The Trustees of Vassar College kindly sent on two valuable colored sketches by Turner's own hand; one was the Bernese Oberland and the other a Bacharach on the Rhine...
...other hand, it seems very difficult to assign any sufficient reason for prohibiting smoking in a room of this kind, as none of the arguments which usually hold against it apply in the present case. The old gentlemen and middle-aged females who object to tobacco on principle seldom find their way into Lower Massachusetts; and it is safe to say that not one in a hundred of those who do frequent the room really dislike to have tobacco smoke around them...
Leeds opened the game with a fly to right field, which was beautifully caught by Hall, with one hand, while running. Hodges then got his base on a safe hit, but was left, as the next two strikers retired in good order. The Bostons scored one run, Barnes getting his first on a base hit and stealing second. In the second innings for the Harvards, Kent opened with a safe fly, Tyng got his first on an error of O'Rourke, Tower and Thatcher made safe hits, and Spinney sent a ball through O'Rourke, letting in Tyng and Tower...
...atmosphere of affection and purity, puts us out of the power of all evil, and preserves from all impure contact, - in the absence of this jealous and anxious solicitude of a mother for what she holds dearest upon earth, evil thoughts come to light, and soon get the upper hand. Upon these tender natures the slightest pernicious influence makes itself profoundly felt. A very small blemish is enough to spoil the best fruits, and it is the most delicate that are most accessible to nourishment...