Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which this gifted artist and her company travel. The most glowing descriptions of the Arabian Nights pale before it. Even the Prince of the Black Isles, who had so many charming young ladies devoted to him, never enjoyed the luxury of hanging up his clothes on a silver-plated hook, nor are we told that Aladdin's famous lamp was nickel-plated. The movements of genius are at all times interesting, but when those movements are made on six wheels of the most approved model, with twelve elliptic and four spiral springs and a Westinghouse air-brake, they are enough...
...architect of Sever Hall might well get some hints for fitting up the professors' retiring-rooms from the arrangements of this car. A silver-plated hook for the professor to hang his hat on would be the first requisite. A nickel-plated lamp would also be very convenient at the four-to-five recitations in winter. Some who now find it hard to get to a nine-o'clock recitation might be accommodated with a secretary that would change into a bed, and this would assure their being on the spot in time the next morning. A silver-plated bath...
...certainly just as appropriate as a comparison of the cemeteries to bones, which is made farther on. Mr. King gets more and more mixed up in his metaphors as he proceeds. The lungs, mind, brain, tongue, soul, heart, pulse, and bones are made to do duty, and by hook or by crook something is scared up to which each of them is compared. But finally the theatres and insurance offices present too many difficulties, and the attempt to continue the metaphor is given up in despair...
...Spider has caught sight of me, - he is coming; but I am a match for him. He will find a barbed hook hidden beneath the fair exterior of this...
...written on slips, and hung on books provided for the purpose, and any one is at liberty to answer them. The idea has become very popular, and will probably be useful, though to judge from the queries, their authors might easily have found the answers on their own hook, without having recourse to the hooks of the Library...