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Word: heads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...have a salutary effect on our own Freshmen, to learn that the Freshman six at Amherst are already selected and hard at work in the gymnasium. It is this taking of time by the forelock that puts a crew at the head of the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...restless pillows of his homeless head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...Cuba! We write a letter home, enclosing will. Freshman gets his head shaved, and despatches by express eleven locks of hair (his hair). Embark on blockade-runner. Presented with cutlasses and sworn in. Bearded patriot shows us over our seaworthy craft for two reis. A stanch Clyde-built steamer, English bottom, long, low, rakish hull, B. No. 3. Interrupted by pistol-boom from quarter-deck, we weigh anchor (4000 lbs., more or less). We lend a hand, which is blistered. Observe mysterious stranger sorting papers in the shadow of a warehouse. Freshman fires, does not drop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODS BODIKINS! | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...five knots pipe to dinner. Speak a ferryboat from Holmes Hole, short of provisions; give them a barrel of salt for ballast, and two able-bodied seamen (already blind-drunk and mutinous). Toward dusk a shot across our bows from villanous-looking pilot-boat. Press on under full head of canvas and steam, - she is overhauling us, - O for night! (Sable Goddess, - Young.) At ii P. M. near enough for conversation, too near for comfort. The interests of Cuban independence demand the preservation of our lives. We provision the Captain's gig, and pass off under cover of darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODS BODIKINS! | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

Slowly then her head came down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAITING FOR THE COWS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

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