Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extensive movement against compulsory vaccination has been organized in Lyun...
When the verdict was rendered the convicted assassin made no movement and uttered no sound. He manifested no sign of interest, excepting a slight tremor of the upper lip. After the verdict had been announced Mr. Scoville rose to ask when he should file his motion...
...movement is on foot for the relief of homeless Jewish families in Russia...
...papers, with which he vanished through a small door in the wall. Another delay ensued, during which I amused myself by studying the frescos on the ceiling, which consisted principally of groups of little naked cherubs in every possible and impossible attitude. At last there was a movement, a pair of folding doors was opened, and we all passed into an adjacent chamber and silently took seats there. At the upper end of the room was a large table with the University Senate seated about it, and near by were four smaller tables at which sat the Deans...
...eyes travelled over the bones and horns, with which, instead of the customary clubs and stone darts, the walls were covered, he spied in a corner several skins of wild animals, which were hung from the roof. Toward them, accordingly, he retreated, while he stammered, to mask his movement, "I don't know...