Word: riseing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fill rapidly, and the men leaped into the water, Cameron unable to swim and seizing Sherman's neck. With extreme difficulty Sherman avoided being pulled under, and, turning about sought to grasp. Cameron; but the swift current had separated them, and he looked in vain for Cameron to rise. Hooker, meanwhile, also unable to swim, succeeded in turning over the shell, by which he kept himself above water until even this frail support began to sink under him, and with a desperate effort, he seized a boat which a boy by the name of O'Brien...
Will watch the sun sink down to rise no more...
...will rise and set upon me still...
...important reign of Louis XI., the period of the struggle with Burgundy, and of the final consolidation of the kingdom, the reign of Francis I., and the religious wars. In Germany, we lose Luther and the whole Reformation; in the Low Countries, the tyranny of Philip II. and the rise of the Dutch Republic. To suppose that a student will carefully study this period by himself is expecting rather too much; indeed, to study it thoroughly without the help of an instructor would be, for most of us, exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. At the same time, a student...
...courses offered, with some changes in the more advanced. A new elective is given in Physics; Natural History remains unaltered; while the courses in Chemistry, being as nearly perfect as possible, have undergone no particular alteration. Music has an additional elective, and Fine Arts an advanced course on the "Rise and Fall of the Arts in Athens and Venice," - a course of great interest, and one that requires a working knowledge of German and French...