Word: nest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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First, a snug little nest in the country...
...each year in the catalogue, - and on one side of this room were a couple of dozen bottles, some test-tubes, and an air-pump; on another side were some rocks, a few fossil bones dug up in the neighborhood, and a huge wasp's-nest presented by one of the students; on the third side was the library, consisting of about four hundred volumes, mostly publications of the American Tract Society; a large picture of the founder of the College, - a red-faced man gazing thoughtfully into the distance while an open volume of Plato rests on his knee...
...soothe me in that snowy nest...
Rise early from thy nest of down...
There lay mosses and curls like an oriole's nest...