Word: made
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...waving ferns and lush grass made...
...stage-business have been arranged. To these latter merits, we think, it owes its success; for there is but one character of importance in the piece, - that of Lord Chilton. This part was assumed by Mr. Barron, and we regard it as one of the best efforts ever made by that gentleman in comedy. Although forced, from the necessities of the part, to imitate Mr. Sothern, this imitation was moderate and spiced with much originality. His support by Miss Clarke and the rest of the company, that of Mr. McClannin in particular, was excellent. Mr. C. H. Frye, a recent...
...knew a dun once. He came, I think, from some coal-office in the distant Port. He was the most affable dun that ever made out a bill. He did not seem to care so much for his money as for the pleasure of my society. I have known him come into my room, fill his brier-wood pipe from my jar of green seal, seat himself comfortably before the fire of his own coal, and enter into lively conversation with me on politics, literature, or art. His pipe out, he would take his departure with never a word...
...greater quantity could be furnished in the Reading Room it would be very acceptable. The afflicted inhabitants of Holworthy affirm that changes in the "twinkling of an eye" from light to sudden darkness are no unfrequent things in that building. Cannot some improvement in this line be made by those having the matter in charge...
...come to our principal object, how much larger and more beneficial would the effects of the institution be made if the smokers were not entirely excluded! The wish must have constantly recurred to the minds of nearly every member of that class, that he could enjoy his after-dinner cigar over some light reading, not in his own possession, but yet so near at hand. Yet if one of the two privileges, smoking or reading, must be given up, the latter, it is much to be regretted, is the one which is usually dispensed with. It is now too late...