Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...letter home, enclosing will. Freshman gets his head shaved, and despatches by express eleven locks of hair (his hair). Embark on blockade-runner. Presented with cutlasses and sworn in. Bearded patriot shows us over our seaworthy craft for two reis. A stanch Clyde-built steamer, English bottom, long, low, rakish hull, B. No. 3. Interrupted by pistol-boom from quarter-deck, we weigh anchor (4000 lbs., more or less). We lend a hand, which is blistered. Observe mysterious stranger sorting papers in the shadow of a warehouse. Freshman fires, does not drop his man, - no cap, and proper position...
...merry bees' low...
...Marking down" sets of books from a very high to what is termed a low figure is a popular way of drawing in those who do not see that the man of straw was set up simply for the purpose of knocking him over again...
Here and yonder, high and low...
...great wealth of Stephen Girard found its offset in his low and pitiable existence...