Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...soon tried to lift all the beds and the grates...
...been too many and too severe to leave the crew much hope of winning the race. The captain of the club has worked hard, and not unsuccessfully, to bring up the crew; it seems to us, however, that on the beginning of his stroke he gets more of a lift than the crew can carry through...
Then we, fond dreamers, lift our drowsy heads...
...very decided opinions upon, we would ask here to-day, when so many of our clerical friends favor us with their presence, that these same friends consider whether or not we have grounds for this criticism upon their weekly sermons. Hard enough it is for clergymen in general to lift themselves out of the sermonizing ruts that their fathers and grandfathers wore deep for them; yet that some do so we all know; and when once we find the large - hearted, great - souled preacher, who seems to have his hand ever on the pulse of humanity, and whose words fire...
...Lift up their haughty heads, - could I not sail...