Word: interwoven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have marked the history of Boston. The most interesting period was that just preceding the Revolution when Boston, under the leadership of Samuel Adams, was the centre of the resistance to the mother country. The exciting events of the period are well told. The history of Harvard is closely interwoven with that of Boston and the names and doings of Harvard men are chronicled in connection with every important movement. The book is profusely illustrated with wood cuts and is well illustrated...
...first evening will embrace the lecturer's reminiscences of the great Paris Revolutions of February and June, 1848, followed by a picturesque delineation of the adveturous career of Prince Louis Napoleon, from his birth to the Imperial throne, with pen sketches interwoven of others of the Bonaparte family, and a glance at the present political situation in France...
...cast away. We cannot, however, prove spiritual truths of scientific argument to-day any more than we could yesterday. We do not believe in God because the theory of his existence is the best hypothesis to account for creation; but we believe in Him because our consciousness finds Him interwoven in our lives, because we find a power in us not of ourselves. We have experience every day of the undying love of God. The music rendered by the choir was unusually good; it included the anthems "Hearken unto My voice," by Smart, and "Christian, the evening waits before thee...
...England or America, but my express will and directions are that he be never sent for that purpose to the colony of Connecticut least he should imbibe in his youth that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so interwoven in their constitutions that all their art cannot disguise it from the World, tho' many of them under the Sanctifyed Garb of Religion have endeavored to impose themselves on the World for honest...
...ordinary slang of girlhood, their vocabulary is still further extended. I gazed wonderingly and rather vacuously perhaps when my cousin said: "Look at that cow. What do you think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males are "men," and all females "cows," with the usual intensive adjectives strung before...