Word: mud
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...England reptiles include the tortoises, snakes and batracians but there are no lizards or crocodiles. There are about ten different species, of batrachians of which the largest is a kind of salamander. These creatures feed on animal food and lay their eggs in the water or mud...
...spite of the bad weather a large and enthusiastic crowd turned out and for the first time this year organized cheering was heard. The field was in fair condition, with just enough mud and water to bring into use the leather suits...
Ninety-Five, 12; Ninety-Six; 0.The second of the class series of football games was played between the seniors and juniors yesterday afternoon and resulted in a victory for the former by a score of 12 to 0. The grounds were a mass of mud and water, making them wholly unfit for good playing. It was so slippery that there was little chance for successful interference and it was consequently a kicking game, in which Jackson out-punted Motley, although the latter made some good kicks. Ninety-five had Doucette, Teele and Jackson, while ninety-six was joined by Warren...
...Francis was born in the town of Assisi, in Umbria, in the year 1182, in that dark period called the "century of mud and blood." It was the time of Frederic Barbarossa and the second Crusade, when discord was rife between church and state, democracy and oligarchy. St. Francis believed in carrying the maxims of the gospel into the public as well as the private life of the people, and his life was a constant example of what he thought...
Zola, said Mr. Copeland, in his accumulation of details may be called a realist, but in his massing of movements and men, he is certainly an idealist, but an idealist whose ideals were of the mud rather than of the sky. In one of his works he has taken the family of Bougon Macquart and carried them on through one book after another in all their adventures, a thing which no writer since Balsac has attempted, and by this means he gives a back-ground of the world and time which most modern French writers fail...