Word: home
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...knows all about it" was on hand and said that the home of the bird is in the far north - in the most northern bed of coniferous forests and forests and that they are so seldom harrassed there that they know absolutely nothing of danger. Almost all Arctic birds are tamer than more southern bred species, but the Pine Grosbeak is the least timid of the Arctic race...
Those who have had the rare good fortune to meet with this bird in the summer home say that is love - song is a delightful bit of bird melody, sweet and tender but with a wild plaintive ess which makes it peculiarly attractive, though it is delivered in such low tones that the listener must bevery close to the bird to hear...
Commodore William F. Weld, '76 died, at his home in Brookline on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Weld died of heart failure, the direct result of a severe attack of diphtheria. He contracted a severe cold while skating, and it developed into diphtheria. It was confidently expected that he would recover but Sunday night he had a relapse from which he was unable to rally...
...William T. Smedley. Mr. Ralph has a faculty of being able to spend a week in a portion of the country and coming away with an exhaustive knowledge of it. So, in the present case, he describes a trip down the Mississippi and is geographically as much at home as if he had spent his life going from Cairo to Memphis and back again...
...fence of the night before bore crimson shields till it seemed ready to drop to the stage. After the concert the men changed clothes at the hotel and boarded the train for Buffalo. Up to this time the rails seemed to separate the fellows farther and farther from home; now the rails on which they were hurrying seemed a band uniting them more and more to home and families...