Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course, takes the other side. Five ladies of the class of '80 did attend the class supper, but remained only through the literary exercises. The Review has one last word to say to the Era about their quarrel, and then announces that it has buried the hatchet forever...
This soon brought matters to a head; the whole town broke out in revolt. The men assembled round an aged tree, called the Rebellion Tree, or the Charter Oak. Here they were taken command of by C. I. Washington. This leader is famous only for carrying a hatchet instead of a sword. The war raged violently for four or seven years, - accounts differ; during a battle in the town, Hollis Hall, one of the principal buildings, was burnt. The final battle was at a place that went by the name of "The Annuals." The government was completely defeated, and fell...
...ideal American," replied he, "is tall, loose-jointed, and hatchet-faced. His clothes do not fit him, or, rather, he does not fit his clothes. His linen is apt to be a trifle negligee, we 'll say. He talks through his nose. His mind may be, like his native prairies, grand in its dimensions; but it is certainly like those prairies in being thoroughly uncultivated. His manners are positively rude in their simplicity...
...September, 1665, five Mohawk Indians, armed each with a gun, pistol, knife, and hatchet, appeared in the town, but were immediately arrested by the constables, true to their duty then, as now, and ever bold in discharging it. In 1668 "some of the most respectable inhabitants were chosen for katechising the youth of the town...
...more pleasant than to shake hands with the Williams Vidette and Amherst Student, to make the acquaintance of the fair editresses from Vassar and all the mixed colleges, to see the Hobart Sentinel and Cornell Era hobnobbing together, or the Miami Student and Southern Collegian burying the hatchet and swearing eternal peace! or, what must certainly happen, to see the funny "Spectrum Lines" and jocose "Particles" each roaring and splitting his sides with laughter at the witticisms of the other! To think of the friendships with our brothers and the correspondences with our sisters of the quill, which can there...