Word: roar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...croweded house greeted the Hasty Pudding Club on the occasion of the first presentation in Boston of the burlesque, "Conrad and Medora." The performance was in every way a success. The audience were kept in a continual roar of laughter by the ludicrous scenes on the stage, and encores and recalls were numerous. Mr. Sears and Mr. Dorr made the hits of the evening. The former made a pronounced success as Birbanto and his singing added greatly to the pleasure of the evening. Mr. Dorr divided the honors with Mr. Sears. The make-ups of Messrs. Hammond, Minturn, Mandell...
...rose, and silence seized the entire company, but as it crossed the bar the whole orchestra burst into a cry of lamentation, outrivalling all previous efforts, then died into death-like silence, while the shrill jodel of the Glee Club goal-keeper rose in exultation above the confused roar of triumph which burst from eleven throats. [We regret that our reporter was not present at the game, and that we therefore omit details...
...friend opened the book, or has he merely balanced it in his capacious hand and said, "The book is well worth the public reading?" Pray heavens, sir critic, they may read it to better advantage than thee. But tell me, was there not something asinine in that last roar? Did not the patronizing lion show his ears? I hesitate - perhaps there is slight ground for such rude talk - but our trans-Atlantic cousin has blundered elsewhere. May we ask of him, with all deference, in the future to leave American books alone, or to examine their contents more carefully...
Meanwhile Tue had been lucky in her escape. The noise that Ching made in crashing through the bushes had warned her of his whereabouts; and she had only to keep out of his path. She hurried on for more than a mile, when the distant roar of the ocean called her to herself; she looked around her, and saw the sun setting, and the forest unfamiliar...
...list the mellowed roar...