Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whitman seems to have solved Driscoll's peculiar cross-court strokes, but at no time except at the start did the latter play winning tennis...
...well-developed drumlins to morainal deposits may be studied. On the seashore there is an admirable exhibition of dike phenomena. The formation of marine pebbles may be studied in those produced from the quarry waste thrown into the sea. The quarries exhibit the phenomena of jointing, and the peculiar accidents of "rift" "lift" and "cut-off," terms used by the quarrymen to indicate available lines of weakness in the stone, which they may use in extracting blocks. If the conditions favor, traces of submerged forests may be found. The excursion is recommended as one of the best which...
...well-developed drumlins to morainal deposits may be studied. On the seashore there is an admirable exhibition of dike phenomena. The formation of marine pebbles may be studied in those produced from the quarry waste thrown into the sea. The quarries exhibit the phenomena of jointing, and the peculiar accidents of "rift," "lift" and "cut-off," terms used by the quarrymen to indicate available lines of weakness in the stone, which they may use in extracting blocks. If the conditions favor, traces of submerged forests may be found. The excursion is recommended as one of the best which...
...town, once served as a landmark for incoming vessels by day, and there is a legend that at night two great carbuncles set in the walls of the church flamed forth like beacons. The most interesting ruins are those of the Church of the Holy Ghost, a peculiar eight-sided building of two stories...
There are three causes which can be shown in extenuation of this fault of Whitman: his sympathy with man, an immoral way of looking at the universe, and a peculiar theory of the functions of a poet. His sympathy led him to participate in and celebrate the sin of men. He looked at nature believing that it should be accepted in its entirety. And Whitman's motto in poetry was "Nature without check...