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...bootieg and gunpowder that own these graces. Manifest is their transcendence over olden methods. The priest was but mutilated. The civilian was ended. Let this be a lesson to the amazon "Order of Our Lady of Tears" when next they dislike a prelate...
...olden times a heavily armoured crusader who had been knocked off his horse lay at the mercy of the foot soldiers ; for he could not walk until he was put on his feet by kind and strong arms...
...Olden Days. An historically-minded writer in The Christian Science Monitor unearthed a report of Yale's commencement exercises in 1820: "'The day was very fine and an unusual number of visitants from abroad was present. . . . The exercises of the day were received with universal approbation and reflected the highest honor upon the institution and the Young Gentlemen who graduated...
...olden days, before the era of national armies, soldiers were recruited with glittering visions of the loot that would be theirs after the victory...
...olden times?when Alexander Hamilton penned its editorials, when William Cullen Bryant purified its diction, and later, when E. L. Godkin and Carl Schurz were its brilliant "fighting" editors?the Post had a grand manner more than once...