Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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OVER the reaches of meadow traced with the sinuous roadway...
...Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns
More swiftly down the meadow...
...those who see the races, and to those who merely read the newspaper accounts of them. The appearance of the Springfield course is so familiar to most of us that we have little need or desire to study the position of the famous sand-bank and the Long Meadow. In the record of the Springfield University Race of last summer, the editor places the crews according to his own observation of their positions at the finish, placing Columbia next after Harvard. It is refreshing to observe that, although he speaks of the negligence of the judges who were placed...
...Boston! So you were, my dear fellow; but now you are in the middle of all the gorgeous warmth and beauty of a New England summer. Put away that dripping umbrella of yours, and let us wander down this lane. See that flock of sheep lying in the meadow yonder, close to that broken-down old wall, and the farm-house just beyond. It must be nearly six o'clock. These long summer days are so deceptive! Yes, there come the cows, followed by a brown-faced urchin. We shall be just in time for a warm glass of milk...