Word: land
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...memory of it, my informant says, she has permitted her children to marry according to their hearts' choice rather than for ambition's sake. Vaux lingered in England until her marriage with Prince Albert put an end to his wildest hopes, and then returned to his native land. Among his many gifts was a splendid voice; and the old ballad of "I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree" was composed by him, she being the heroine of the plaint...
...along the shore, the forest extended for miles, an unbroken stretch of beech and maple. Tue, in her few hasty glances at the surroundings of the village, had selected this as the most beautiful spot in the landscape; perhaps as much because it led to her own sunny native land as for any peculiar charm of its own. Thither she now turned her steps...
Bore him across the land that lay between...
...writer in the Advocate of October 21st states that the Lacrosse men obtained the grant of the land without consulting, in the arrangement, the tennis players from whom they were taking the only ground available for courts...
...article in the Crimson claims, on the other hand, that the grant to the Lacrosse Association was made by the President before any courts had been marked out on the land specified in that grant. This statement merely confirms the technical right of the Lacrosse men; but has no bearing upon the question of discourtesy which, in the judgment of the writer in the Advocate, is one of considerable importance, but which the answer in the Crimson waives, and, by silence upon this point, admits, we infer, that the Lacrosse Association is wrong at least in this respect...