Word: plated
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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What matter if all in his house - like his plate...
...Europe; while the Florio steamers which ply along the Sicilian coast are decidedly the best, as far as accommodation and table go, that we have found upon the Mediterranean. The other misstatement is that Sicilian hotels are so dirty that you cannot sit down to dinner without washing your plate. The large hotels of Palermo, Messina, and Catania are among the best in Italy; while even the small Italian inns, such as the "Locanda del Sole" in Syracuse, are as clean, neat, and inviting as one could wish...
...that they have never gained so creditable a victory. The pitcher for the Princeton is one of the best we have yet played against, and his delivery is a very trying one to strike. The ball comes in a perfect line till within a short distance of the home plate, when it suddenly swerves from its course and passes beyond the reach of the striker. The play on the third base was excellent. Kent's play on the first base was magnificent. Hooper, as usual, pitched wonderfully well. Ernst made a beautiful catch in the last innings, running from centre...
...heliotypes and other blind guides, that the thing the least intelligible was the most "high art," I chose the Portfolio, a journal which, until my culture-mania, I had looked upon as the acme of stupidity, and began studying the etchings published therein. By dint of sitting before each plate for half an hour and exclaiming, "How splendid! What depth and juiciness of tone! What exquisite grace in the curves of the left toe!" etc., I had got in a few months to such a pitch of development that the sight of an etching at forty rods affected...
...Philadelphia paper. The Schuylkill Navy is to invite the crews, and provide them with boat-houses and dressing-rooms, as well as put up extra prizes. There will be five classes of races: first, the regatta of the National Association; second, the annual college regatta, when a piece of plate is to be presented to the winners, in addition to individual gold medals; third, an international college race, for four oars, the prize again to be plate with gold medals to the winning crew; fourth, a race open to all clubs in the world; and last, a four-oar race...