Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rice fulfilled the requirements of the constitution relative to furnishing three courses at dinner. This he leaves for others to solve. Before closing let me call attention to a remarkable property possessed by the turnip, - that vegetable described by a recent writer on food and dietetics as "possessing a low nutritive value." Let me call attention to the patience and perseverance of this turnip. Again and again has it left our tables untouched; again and again has it reappeared to tempt us with its fragrant smell. Poor disappointed turnip! Is no one strong enough to carry it forevermore away...
...duels. These take place sometimes at the Bier Keller, sometimes in the rooms of a society. Imagine a party of students in a large garden, seated on a long wooden bench before a table of equal length, under the shade of horse-chestnut trees. At one side stands a low wooden building into which one after another the students disappear, and emerge again with a large glass of beer, accompanied by a huge piece of bread and cheese. There are no Kellner, and each one has to go into the cellar, and grope his way in the darkness...
...when low the red sun sank...
...fair flowers of God wilted low at thy breath...
What quenchless Greek fire burns low in those eyes...