Word: rose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...befriend hall of the university helped to shut out the distant view. But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. And far away rose the hills that bounded the view, with the glimmer here and there of the white walls or the illuminated casements of some embowered. half-hidden villa. Eastwardly also, the prospect was, in my earlier remembrance, widely open, and I have frequently seen the sunlit sails gliding along as if through...
...general belief. Farm laborers received at the most $5 per month, boys $1. The farmers could not pay more; they had no market for their produce because the artisans were in Europe. Butter was 8 cents a pound, and some women in Connecticut went insane when the price rose to 10 cents. The laboring man of the North was worse of than the salve of the South, says one writer...
...steps of Billy, the postman, receded from the door, the worthy senior rose, picked up the bill, returned to his seat, relighted his pipe, opened the envelope, and then soliloquized as follows, while he read down the list of items: "Humph, here we have 'em again. Another Xmas card from the Bursar, Well, let's see how the score stands on this round. Well, first thing instruction, $50; now that's good. I've been to about 'steed recitations this year, and at half of them I've flunked, while at the other half I've spent my hour...
Those who rose early yesterday morning might have seen an '88 "plug," hat on the classic head of John Harvard...
...more holy" than our fellows. When twelve men pronounce a man guiltless of crime, we accept their judgment as correct. What then shall we say of vindication such as Maine has given Blaine, when the people of a sovereign state, regardless of party, creed or condition, rose up and showed their love, their trust, their faith, by 20,000 majority ! Let us in these resolutions give evidence of our respect for the only man who in the history of the Republic held no public office at the time of his nomination, a fact which ranks James G. Blaine with...