Word: plank
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...taken to Marat, found him sitting in his bath, correcting proof on a plank laid across the tub. Seriously ill, Marat spent his days in a slipper tub, nude to the waist, a dressing-gown thrown across his shoulders, his head bound in vinegar-soaked muslin, fighting arthritis, eczema and the great heat. His flesh corrupting, his blood poisoned, death was only a matter of weeks. His lead-colored features were swollen and disfigured with sores; his eyes, bloodshot arid yellow-grey, were nevertheless serene. He spoke to her gently. Awaiting her opportunity, she gave him details of an uprising...
...laying down board walks during the winter season was half a century old. It was instituted by the Corporation in 1880 largely because of student agitation and of the editorial policies of the CRIMSON and its progenitor, the Magenta, whose columns for seven years warmly espoused the movement for plank walks...
...wish the College would lay plank walks in the Yard. As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal man at Washington turns the water into ice, as we gracefully measure our length in front of the University, we think of this...
ment of our beloved institution, but we mildly hint that plank walks, such as are each winter on the Boston Common, would be a blessing to Faculty and students...
...There was no talk of birth or rank By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank In the steel-grated prisons where I cast him; For But rest - niggard and hours the and a naked light narrow on his space face - While the ship's traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. IV "Thus I speak at the schooled him word to - at go a and sign be come - dumb; To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished and - over all - To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus...