Word: hide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been announced to be at the gates, on a false alarm, that when they arrived, last week, their coming was almost an anticlimax. There was no fighting. The defenders, a miserable rabble of mercenaries, had simply fled back from the previous scene of battle; and, as they scattered to hide as best they could, the Cantonese Nationalist columns trudged in. As they billeted themselves in the Chinese City, British soldiers and marines paced with fixed bayonets outside the barbed-wire-defended Occidental City. They saw their first real action when retreating soldiers...
...most amusing volume on display is a precursor of the modern books of etiquette, printed in 1685, and entitled "The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, or, the Arts of Wooing and Complimenting," as they are managed in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange and other eminent places. The contents of the book are further set off in the phrases "And to compleat the young Practitioners of Love and Courtship, these following conducing Helps are chiefly insisted on: Addresses and set Forms of Expression for imitation, Poems, pleasant Songs, Letters, Proverbs, Riddles, Jests, Posies, Devices, Ala-Mode Pastimes...
...soldiers were billeted in her house. Only the living-room was left to Mme. Belmont-Gobert. Then, after the soldiers had clumped out to forage for dinner, a light tap came at her back door. With fearful, hungry eyes, a British trooper, Patrick Fowler, asked Mme. Belmont-Gobert to hide and succor...
...American Hide & Leather-raw hides come from slaughterhouses; are tanned for leathers-loss...
...Heflin: I have just read the Congressional Record of Jan. 28. I am glad my shaft struck home! It pierced your thick hide. It made you squeal...