Word: rode
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Rode the five hundred...
...compliment, a bullet through his hat; and here, I thought, "the old meeting-house, before which the Americans awaited the charge of the British," must have stood. They waited until the British got unpleasantly near, when Putnam and his men, concluding that "discretion was the better part of valor," rode away. To the right of the meeting-house are the stone steps down which Putnam rode. To the left is the road along which the British dragged their cannon after firing a random shot at the retreating hero. This ball, I was informed, fell on the road, and with half...
...felt, as he rode his one sorry...
...rode his homeward course...
...They rode out to Chestnut Hill in state...