Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chorus, and still further towards the audience sat the band. The tragedy was shortened, being divided into a prologue and three acts, for each of which there was a separate scene. On the stage were represented in turn a terrace looking towards the abode of the Delphic Oracle, the shrine of a Doric temple with the Furies lying about asleep, the temple of Pallas built in the Ionic style, and the summit of the Areopagus. The scenery is said to have been on the whole, very effective...
...love is deaf and cannot hear. That it is a case of love, there can be no doubt; for he, the typical yodeler pursues the object of his passion, the very elusive and unattainable yodel, at all hours of the day and night. He kneels at his inamorata's shrine when first he wakes; and at the solemn hours of mid-night he flats a few sweet notes as the last strain of his farewell serenade before he goes to bed, or in the early morning he chirps out his cheerful clear-toned song to tell his fellow birds that...
...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 "the great of old." Finally let us lay our leaf of laurel on the shrine of him who for twenty years as statesman, scholar, and public man, has been the ideal and the impersonation of the genius of our institutions...
...today are still cast in the moulds of the seventeenth century. The scholars of that time saw a great light which shone out of darkness and they worshipped it; and we, their descendants, in the ninth generation, upon whom greater lights have arisen, still worship at the same shrine. A position of academically equality with Greek, Latin and mathematics is demanded for those later studies which have proved to be a necessity to a liberal education. American colleges to an extent that is ridiculous neglect some of the most important studies outside of the classics and mathematics. Dartmouth...
...should we have known, again, that to look like a light green caterpillar was the duty of every devotee at the shrine of Fashion, were it not that Y - kindly reminds us of the fact three times...