Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will give you a short history of its career, and show you some of its good points, so that you may see that you have a veritable treasure in your midst. In the first place, let me tell you that this beautiful timepiece was ordered by Lord Gladstone for Queen Victoria, when they were first engaged. My Lord, wishing the watch to be of unexceptionable excellence, had the case made in dear old Ireland [cheers from Irishmen], while the inside works were made on the sunny hills of Germany [cheers from Germans]. The Queen, after refusing many offers...
...bares her arm my fancy's queen...
...inch, than the record of Conover, of Columbia, made at the last American Intercollegiate Sports, held May 9, 1879. On March 4, Mr. M. Shearman, St. Johns, ran 120 yards in 11 3-5 seconds, and on March 8, in the Oxford Sports, Mr. B. R. Wise, Queen's, ran a mile in 4 min 27 2-5 sees., or about 10 seconds better than the best American amateur record. There is no reason whatsoever for the English records to surpass ours thus, except that the Englishmen think of competing in time to allow themselves due preparation...
...cars of the Union Railway are forty in number, - twenty close and twenty open. They are finished in the Queen Anne style, and upholstered with velvet plush...