Word: land
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...excitement prevails in London over the news of the assassination of Lord Cavendish and of Burke in Dublin Saturday. The deed meets with expressions of universal horror and condemnation throughout this country, and is considered the worst blow to the fortunes of Ireland that could have been given. The Land League has published a manifesto deploring the occurrence as fatal to Ireland's hopes. Four men have been arrested on suspicion...
...boat was so full of water that something had to be done to relieve the heavy strain. Perceiving, with the true instinct of heroes, the imminent danger to the boat and their companions, Messrs. Keith and Bunney, Horatius-like, leapt into the foaming flood and swam to the nearest land, which proved to be the Charles river embankment, some 50 feet distant. The remainder of the crew pulled the boat to the Union Club float, but there was no one there to assist them in landing, while the heavy sea running threatened to dash them against the float. Another chance...
...wisdom of his policy; but might not the more impartial and unprejudiced classes unite to express their firm belief in his integrity and patriotism, which now appear to be so freely doubted, and to endeavor in some measure to stem the tide of demagogism that is rolling over the land? The Harvard Union might perform this function for this community, and might find this a very interesting question to discuss at some future meeting. Doubtless those in the university who approve of Mr. Lowell's course would be glad of such an opportunity as this or some similar...
...first day's session of the American Land League took place in Washington yesterday. Gen. P. A. Collins was elected president. Thirty-two States were represented by delegates. Resolutions were passed demanding the recall of Minister Lowell ; and a-letter condemnatory of Lowell's course was read from Wendell Phillips. Representative W. E. Robinson of New York made a demagogical speech whose chief tenor was the condition of the American eagle, "with its beak filled with Lowell garbage." "But the American eagle had been aroused from her ignoble slumber, and the British lion must quail before her" - and further edifying...
...pronunciation heard in American society. Examples are given and corrections made of many faults of language and grammar, including the frequent confusion in the use of verbs and their tenses. A few examples may be given: Apartments to let should be apartments to be let; all over the land, over all the land; it fell on the floor, it fell to the floor; my every hope, all my hopes; he covered it over, leave out over; address your letters, not direct them; he lay on the sofa, not laid; etc. The book is an invaluable aid to any one wishing...