Word: hung
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...study was unremitting on the part of the students, and the memory of Louis Agassiz seemed to keep alive an interest among them, with the desire of working as he would have wished. The Laboratory was hung with sentences from his lips and his writings; not a day passed when his name was not mentioned; and often a student of last year could be heard telling a new-comer of some act of kindness and thoughtfulness on the part of the great teacher...
...more than forty; if less than forty, one director will be allowed. With the officers is to rest the choice of an auditor, who shall keep the accounts and exercise a general supervision, at the salary of the present steward. The pictures now in Massachusetts are to be hung in the hall, and every means used to make the hour of dinner pleasant and social...
...thickets, hung with Bacchus' fruit...
...those venerable relics which are hung upon my walls are the best refreshers of memory imaginable. Supposing half one's time to be spent out of doors; during this time he naturally wears a hat; and whatever events a sight of the old beaver over the fireplace or the brown straw with the faded blue ribbon will bring back, first the season when it was worn, then particular scenes and experiences. Thus is half one's past kept at hand in a convenient treasury, from which the wealth of the past is easiest drawn, - by old hats...
...purple clouds are hung upon the blue...