Word: hung
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot think of it without an indefinable personal sense of terror, as if what he that night saw was impending over the life of every man, a sword hung by a thread. To his keen, sharp, sensitive temperament an apparition truly tragic was anywhere possible. And the phantasm which appeared to Shelley shortly before his death came from reading a weird drama by Calderon, - a work so rare as to be wellnigh inaccessible...
...must be friends, you know," continued the stranger. "I am your best friend - in disguise; and you are to come with me and see Alice. I am her friend, too. And the sun is down, and there is a great flag hung across the sky . . . Do you see that long keen sword over there? That is mine - and yours...
...already there are enough of them in existence to form a collection which could not fail to be of great interest, not only to ourselves, but to the hundreds of sightseers who annually visit our Gymnasium. If all such photographs at present available were to be obtained and hung up in the meeting room, it would be a very easy matter to add to them each year the three or four more which would be needed to perpetuate the custom; and we would suggest, as none of the various athletic associations are in the position to make this presentation...
...President, though, but only for one of those giddy girls again. It was in a stationer's shop where I first saw her. She was standing before a counter, and as I entered she glanced beseechingly toward me with her "violet velvet eyes, over which the silken fringes hung with such tender madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop, and as I hurried past the counter where she had been standing...
...room of the Society of Christian Brethren (18 Stoughton) has been handsomely papered by the Society, and painted in party-colors by the College. The furniture has been renovated and partly renewed, a new carpet has been put down, and very handsome curtains hung. The expenses of removal have been borne by past and present members of the Society and by several members of the Faculty. The room will probably not be occupied till after the recess...