Word: hawk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presidency of the second Adams, and in which the "Pieter von Leninck" of the Red Star Line, was having her great sides scraped and painted. The party did not stop long to examine the "Pieter," but hurried on; turning to their right they passed the revenue cutter "Fish-Hawk," in the service of the Fish Commission, and arrived at a little covered dock at the end of which was moored a curiously built scow. Hardly had they entered the scow when a bell rang, and two sturdy marines began turning a windlass in the middle of the floor. The scow...
...exceptions of the grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek, gentlemen. In such matters sit at the feet of men of ripe experience like President Barnard of Dartmouth. He knows a good Grecian when he sees him as surely as President Barnard knows a hawk from a handsaw, and when he wants anything in the Greek line he orders it from Illinois...