Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, hundreds of Boyden's boys were back at Deerfield for the school's 150th anniversary. The school put on a pageant, complete with oxen, stagecoach, blunderbusses, and a tableau of the Deerfield Massacre of1704.* But the sight most visitors had come to see was Frank Boyden himself...
Over the next seven years, other trainers learned to worry when Ben Jones came into sight. He had hard-hitting horses?Joe Schenck, Inscoelda, Technician, Rifted Clouds, Lady Broadcast...
There wasn't a policeman in sight, and the baby-faced young men had disappeared from the train. The passengers hung out the windows, applauding the wheezy brass band and waving back at the beaming townspeople. The blonde was crying...
...other cronics are there, still playing cards in Cesar's saloon--Escartefigue, the "retired" tugboat captain, M. Brun, the apothecary who will always be reminded, when he errs, that "he certainly is from Lyons!" They are a welcome sight...
...artist's "enormous whiskers, which straggle all down his throat in such weather [looking] like a partially unravelled bird's-nest." As Dickens explained himself later, he was "penetrated with sorrow" for the family of the dead but, at the same time, threatened with "convulsions" at the sight of the living. He nearly blew himself apart with simultaneous spasms of misery and hilarity...