Word: nile
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...considering the canoe's then far from perfect state, would have proved difficult and dangerous achievements. And as for the use of sails, the mere suggestion would probably have been considered a freak of insanity. Gradually, however, the readers of McGregor's lonely and adventurous cruise on the Nile, Jordan and other rivers, began to attempt like feats, and in this way there sprung up a desire for a more serviceable canoe, which has resulted in its attaining its present state of perfection. The application of ingenuity and skill and the constant study of the canoe have ended...
...your father send him to some American college - where English is more generally spoken - where he might meet more young men from the United States, and not quite so many from abroad? Of course I know that it is gratifying to the curiosity to see labelled specimens from the Nile and Cork and the Feejee Islands. But then one would hardly care to chum with them, you know...
...mind's eye we can see the Delaware swell, making his P. P. C. after the above-mentioned interview, and blighting the hopes of rival swains with a lavish display of "call cards, tinted rep, rose, lavender, stone, canary, or Nile green...
...want a pack of visiting or call cards, neatly encased, either white, rose, lavender, stone, canary, or Nile green, call at the Gazette office. We have the only rep cards (five tints) in the city, and offer them at the same price as the plain tints...
Sweeps o'er us like Nile with its Nubian...