Word: nook
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...address upon a text taken from the first chapter of John-God said: "I am the light of the world, I am the light of anture." The speaker said that when the sun rises over the earth and finds it in darkness it sends its light abroad to every nook and corner; this is the parable of Christ sent on earth to redeem man. It is not strange that we turn from evil to good, for man has the highest possibilities in him which by Christ's aid can be carried out. We are children of God, not of Darkness...
...some other method of study should be recommended by the instructor? It is an undoubted fact, too, that many hours of valuable time are wasted every day by members of the course in the vain hunt for books, which other members of the course are reading in some secluded nook in the library. We do not mean to underrate the admirable system of references which Dr. Hart has compiled with such care. They are invaluable to the students of American history, and nowhere can such orderly and comprehensive treatment of the great questions of our history be found. It does...
...were visible in the darkness. Two rockets shot up ward as signals and then on a sudden, as by a single flash, the old castle burst into a glare of crimson fire. Green light appeared below it; but all else was utter gloom. It was a wonderful sight. Every nook and cranny of the great building was flooded with the fiery glow, as it stood out in unrelieved intensity from the black mountain side. Thus it must have looked when Tilly paused on the Terrace to look back at the glorious bon-fire he had kindled. The majestic ruin, majestic...
This is but a brief summary of the contents of a room whose every nook discloses some rare and antique object. To give but a list of what it contains would fill a volume...
...librarian of Harvard University, in acknowledging the receipt of a copy of Bent's "Short Sayings of Great Men," says, "I am glad to have at my elbow in my own study - as I have had for some days - in a convenient nook in my official den, another good friend of a book, to make me seem to others wiser than I am, and to show me to myself more deficient than ever...