Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Heap-swearing Fox, stroke, Heap-pull Charley...
...placed in alcove 38. Unfortunately there is no more conspicuous place for so worthy a gift; but the library is quite full, and the number of books has increased so rapidly that there is now great need of an addition. In many instances it has been found necessary to heap the books on the floor. Files of important newspapers have to be stowed in out-of-the-way places, and we hear there is no room on the shelves for a dozen additional volumes. If an addition is to be made to Gore Hall, the sooner it is done...
That crawls upon a festering heap of mould...
...heap of treasures greater...
...annual presentation to the happy occupant of a corner room in the ground-floor of Hollis. The last item is a skull, with a few names artistically painted on the exterior; there is also pasted thereon "Byron's Apostrophe to a Skull." A human skull in this heterogeneous heap! When I reflect that "history sometimes repeats itself," the inference drawn is not a pleasant one. I might increase this group indefinitely; enough objects have been given to show what are used as transmittenda...