Word: ribboners
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...furry side, her tender paw, and he weeps with regret in the sullen copice, uncomforted. The squirrel, unable to support any longer the pain of her wound, falls swooning at his feet. He picks her up. He bandages with fumbling care her paw in a silk ribbon. Ah, how they rejoice then, the creatures who before harangued him ; how shyly they regard him, transfixed at his compassion ! Now he will learn his lessons...
...Museum contains such interesting relics as Napoleon's* riding whip, a lock of his hair, the red ribbon of the Order worn by him the day of the Battle of Waterloo; the oriflammed mantle of the Ordre de Saint Esprit (Order of the Holy Ghost) worn by the Kings of France; the chain of the same Order worn by Louis...
...President's response was almost inaudible. The silver-haired clerk of the Supreme Court held out a Bible* that had been the property of the President's grandfather. A purple ribbon held it open at the first chapter of St. John. The President kissed it perfunctorily...
...Ebert funeral appeared a large wreath of lilacs, bearing a ribbon with a crown and the initial "W." The Acht Uhr Abendblatt was overjoyed. "From ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm," the newspaper reported. The Deutsches Tageblatt was certain that it was the ex-Kaiser who had, with characteristic thought, sent the wreath...
William Beebe, with the Oceanographic Expedition of the New York Zoological Society aboard the ship Arcturns (TIME, Feb. 16), reported by wireless that the expedition was in the Sargasso Sea, and that the first specimens of young ribbon-like eels had been captured...