Word: land
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mountain told the sunny land...
...thence home. With praiseworthy judgment he devotes most of the volume to the countries less known, and but fifteen pages to Europe and its oft-described localities. We are surprised that any one could have passed so close to the shores of Greece without setting his foot upon the land. But with this exception Mr. Curtis seems to have laid out his route remarkably well...
...fact that a dormitory such as Beck Hall has been put up by private persons during the past summer, should suggest some reflections to the College authorities. The owner of this hall has invested a considerable amount of money in his enterprise; he bought the land at a good price, and the taxes upon the property must amount to quite a sum. He expects, no doubt, to be paid an excellent rate of interest upon all this investment, and, judging from the fact that the owner of Little's Block has an annual return of eight per cent...
...much below the average recitations of the Wisconsin University." He proceeds to take the readers of the Press and introduce them, "in imagination," to the "Emerronian face" of Dr. Peabody, - whatever that may be. Then he ventures "to drop in a moment upon that remarkable native of the classic land of Greece, Professor Sophocles, whose worthy timeworn face is surrounded with a monstrous pile of snow-white hair, and who advances toward you with such a looseness of manner and dreamy intelligence of expression, that you wonder whether the veritable old Greek poet and the more modern Rip Van Winkle...
Blessed Eunoe, stream of the lotos-fed land...