Word: plumes
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...this vast destruction, Mr. Hornaday attributed to the absence of popular sentiment against it, and thus to the absence of strict laws, and the enforcement of laws already in existence. Other causes are the destructive habit of collecting among boys and ornithologists, and the ravages of the sportsman and plume hunter...
...yards.M. J. G. Cunniff '98, F. H. Thompson '98, F. R. Plume, Jr., '99, E. St. J. Johnson '98 N. P. Breed...
...publication by the J. B. Lippincott Company of Owen Hall's first novel, "The Track of a Storm," has developed the fact that this gifted magazinist has been masquing under a nom de plume. He is an Englishman who has been for many years a traveller in the far east, has been a member of the New Zealand Parliament and a student of the British dominions in the Pacific. Hence the knowledge of these regions shown in his story, which shifts from the England of a generation ago to the penal settlements of the Orient...
...into a Saxon grave, and the noble into a Norman tomb. All the parts of armor, which was worn only by the nobel, have French names, while the weapons of the people, sword, bow, and the like continued Saxon. So feather is Saxon, but when it changes to a plume for the lord, or a pen for the learned it becomes foreign. Book is Saxon, but a number of books collected together, as could only be done by the wealthy, becomes a library. The weapons of the scholar-pen, ink, paper-all point to foreign origin, and one of them...
...historical in argument, supported by facts, and free from political bias or party propagandism. The tone shall be moderate; the style plain and terse, and likely to interest alike the educated and uncultivated reader. 4. The essays are to be type-written, signed with a nom de plume, and the true name of the author to be enclosed in a sealed envelope, superscribed with the assumed name. 5. The length shall not exceed 5000 words. 6. The successful essay shall become the property of the association. 7. All essays to be received on or before May 15, 1891. The jury...