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...conducted it, and then going to recitations before they had breakfasted, it is not surprising that a spirit of discontent was created which manifested itself in various disorders. They disfigured Harvard Hall, blew the bell to pieces with gunpowder, fastened up the doors, and on one occasion a hog's head was found on the bible. Before one of the religious services some "pull-crackers" were fastened to the lids of the Bible, which, on being opened, caused them to explode with a loud noise...
There are about a dozen different species of snakes of which the commonest is the brown snake. It is, however, seldom seen at the surface of the ground except after heavy rains. The so called hog nose snake is named for its peculiar shaped snout which is used in digging in the ground for grubs. When attacked these serpents often feign death, and do it so effectually that people have supposed that they fainted from fright. The small green snake, and the larger black snake are both well known and perfectly harmless, as is also the pugnacious checkered adder...
...good number, there is much more to be criticised than is be commended. The illustrations are very poor, especially the front-piece, "The Veteran's Last Fight," painted expressly for Outing. It would be hard to imagine a tamer fight. It is a picture of a wild hog with two dogs on him and three or four more looking on with a sleepy kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand in hand in a most unnatural...
...cousins, Sophs at Vassar. Welcome breakfast. Rain increases; have to spend the day. Luncheon. Dinner. Bezique and forfeits in the sitting-room. Rain ceases. Cousins excuse themselves to study Hebrew in the library. Uncle takes us out to see prize swine. Freshman detects latent ring-bone in blue-ribbon hog. Uncle turns pale. Freshman advises daily gallop and a mild blister. Uncle retires to library and adds codicil to his will. More forfeits. Freshman sues prettier cousin for twining tress. Enter uncle...
...from early times, but to attempt cheap imitations by cloth covers emblazoned with all the colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of taste. Better the old-fashioned, sober, hog-skin cover than the flash and flimsy bindings of some of our modern books...