Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long time I could not sleep that night. It rained in torrents and the wind blew fiercely. The old house creaked and trembled; the branches swept the roof as though the visible garments of the storm were fluttering by. After a while, however, the wind died down; the violence of the storm suddenly abated; and by and by there was a glimmer of moonlight in the eastern sky. Looking at this, I fell asleep...
With jutting wall and roof's long sweep...
...rumored that the Directors of Memorial had something to do with setting fire to Wadsworth on Wednesday. Powder has been discovered leading from the Bursar's office to the roof. What would we have thought had we seen our esteemed friend hurled into...
...join our voice with that of others for the higher education of women; but we question the wisdom of educating them under the same roof with the other sex. We do not, with the Amherst Student, "fear the humiliation which the trousered sex must bear" when exposed to the "irresistible power of their beauty" But for their sake, for the sake of their dear mammas, if they come to Hamilton, we should feel compelled to recommend the dear ones to the watchful care of the matrons in our neighboring seminaries...
...roof of Weld is being repainted...