Word: reared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stage of the Swan Theatre was very peculiar. The sole entrances, which were in the two rear corners, were concealed by arras. There was no curtain at all. Two-thirds the way up the back was a row of windows to light the stage. There were two roofs. The lower rested on pillars, the tops of which were on a level with the third gallery, and then slanted upwards toward the windows. The upper roof was horizontal and stretched from the top of the back wall half way over the slanting roof...
...minutes past eight when ex-Governor Long and the speakers stepped upon the platform they were greeted by an audience that filled every seat and crowded the aisles at the rear of the theatre; every seat, practically, had been sold, to say nothing of a large number of admissions...
...pounds, and another a strength of 60,000 pounds. There is a machine for testing currents, an oil tester, and a tester for steam indicators. For driving this machinery there is an engine of twenty-five or thirty horse power. Steam is furnished by an upright boiler in the rear part of the building. In connection with the boiler are a blower for forced draught and an automatic feed-pump for supplying water...
...rear of the cast museum, the stairway leads to the second floor. Upstairs there is a large central room for drawings, a small room for the same purpose east of it, and a library at the opposite...
...ball between two pairs of the opponents' goal pins counts ten; knocking down a goal post five; forcing the ball back under the line three; a foul by stepping over the centre line, two for the opponents; a foul by throwing the ball over the string at the rear of the court, one for the opponents...