Word: ring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make the echoes ring, as loud we sing...
...requisite preliminaries having been settled and the prescribed melancholy formalities gone through, the usual question was put: "Wilt thou have this woman for thy wife?" To which the rash youth answered, "I will," in a clear and distinct voice. He then put the fatal ring on Miss Smith's finger, the hymeneal noose was adjusted, and the poor fellow was launched into matrimony...
...tattoo on the bottom of the boat; the eyes became mere circles; the spots around the nose grew larger and more distinct, until they assumed definite figures, that seemed like the Roman numerals. The body was fading away. The flapping of the tail became louder and had a metallic ring. The goggling eyes lost all expression. But the beating of the tail becomes terrific; it rings in my ears. It deafens me. I must fly, overboard - anywhere...
...started violently (in such a sad condition were my nerves), and, turning, saw Bertha Carlin. I recovered myself sufficiently to make an intelligible reply, and we fell to chatting there while waiting for the breakfast-bell to ring, - at least, that must have been our excuse, though the physical feeling of hunger was not a possibility to me just then. I made one discovery that troubled me. Bertha's eyes looked dull and heavy, with dark rings about them, as if she, too, had suffered from loss of sleep. I fancied that she seemed even more nervous than myself...
...They form in a ring, and swear...