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...wild and terrible as brown bears, some are as sudden and delicate as gazelles; some, when they are led out of their cages to the pavilion of print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark like foxes. The word "tolerance" is a small blind rabbit creeping into a heap of refuse. "Evolution" is the word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull and sly, surly eyes. Last week, disregarding the signs that forbid feeding the animals...
...Thornton, N. H., Farmer James Cummings was fattening 4,000 turkeys. All were swept away. At Waterbury Vt., 28 died. At Bemis, Vt., seven houses were piled in one heap of wreckage...
...falls in a heap on the ground. Leslie follows him, firing and then standing over him, fires two or three more shots in rapid succession into his prostrate body...
...away to New York from the old soldiers' home and, for purposes of protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow near a Brooklyn dump heap. Here they meet a rich gentleman who has lost his memory. After much todo, Alice reaches the arms of the restored man of property, and the old soldier hears bugles calling as the curtain falls slowly on a preposterous yarn, told with undeniable but sometimes unmistakably forced charm...
...started in the room used by the General Court; thence it burst into the Library. The books easily submitted to the progress of the flame, which spread through the whole building, and in a short time this venerable monument to the piety of our ancestors was reduced to a heap of ashes. The other Colleges, Stoughton Hall and Massachusetts Hall, were in the danger of sharing the same fate... But by the blessing of God upon the vigorous efforts of the assistants, the rain was confined to Harvard Hall; and there, besides the destruction of the private property of those...