Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost. White bull terrier bitch, scar on head, plain leather collar. Liberal reward offered to the finder. Apply 24 Beck Hall, Cambridge...
Lost. A white bull-terrier bitch; scar on the head; plain leather collar. Liberal reward offered to the finder. Apply to the Janitor of Beck Hall...
Boston Museum. - "Harbor Lights." Harbor Lights, though why it should be so called is not made very plain to the audience, is a sensational play with a well constructed plot, and although some of the characters and situations are worn a little threadbare by constant use, nevertheless are so skillfully managed as to make it seem almost like a new play. The play is well cast and the company appear to better advantage than in the many plays which they have presented...
...provisions, etc., and also the morning's papers and letters for the crew; so that when the crew come back, they find enough to engage their attention until two o'clock, when dinner is served. The table is a long one, large enough for fifteen or sixteen people. Plain china crockery and glassware are used, all the service of the table, in fact, showing the greatest economy and simplicity. There are two negro waiters, one of whom I believe acts also as cook...
...described as being "thirty-seven feet long, lap-streak built, heavy, quite low in the water, with no sheer, and with a straight stern. The width was about three feet and a half in the widest part, and tapered gradually towards bow and stern. The boat had plain, flat wooden thole-pins fitted into the gunwale. Her oars were of white ash, and ranged from thirteen feet six inches long in the waist, to twelve feet at bow and stern. The captain's gig of a man-of-war will give a very good idea of her general fittings." Since...