Word: hid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...works of Cornelius Agrippa and Petrus de Abano. Their lessons, which had not hitherto been of much practical service, recurred to my mind. Stooping down I drew a circle round myself and my old friend in the fragrant white blossoms which were strewn so thick that they quite hid the grass. This circle I fortified by the usual signs employed, as Benvenuto Cellini tells us, in the conjuration of evil spirits. I then proceeded to utter one of the common forms of exorcism. Instantly the myriad houris assumed the forms of irritated demons; the smoke from the uncounted narghiles burned...
Tell where fairies hid are lying...
...pathetic in Yale's present attitude. Condemned by Princeton, Columbia and Harvard, seriously accused by the first, mildly warned by the second, and soundly rated by the third, her lot is not a happy one. There are, we suspect, in this business, a number of very important morals lying hid, that our erring sister would do very well to take to heart. Yet Yale's favorite and traditional attitude is a belligerent one, and we doubt very much if she will take it all with any very good grace; rather, we are led uncharitably to suspect that the role...
Prone at his feet she fell, and, speaking, hid...
...mortal sorrow can be hid...