Word: silver
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Stands gazing in the silver stream...
...tribute of his silver tongue...
BICYCLING.ON March 14 the Cambridge University Bicycle Club had a 50-miles road-race for a challenge cup and silver medals. There were nine starters, and A. A. Honey of Sidney College proved the winner, in 3 h. 51 min., H. S. Clarke, Trinity being second, in 4 h. 13 min., and G. A. Shoppee, Jesus, third, in 4 h. 19 min. 30 sec. The roads were very rough and stony...
...many of us at Harvard are interested. The Bulletin consists of twenty-five pages, of which ten contain a list of the most-important additions to the Library since December. The remaining fifteen include some more notes on authorities in American History, by Dr. Lodge; notes on "Gold and Silver," by Professor Dunbar, which give us the best works on the production and uses of gold, and on the double standard; a long notice on "Authorities for the History of the Empire and the Papacy, 1056-1122," by Mr. Emerton; one on some new theological works, by Professor Abbot...
...music of the dance, the whirling figures of ravishing beauties, and the sparkling wine. Amidst all the joyous mirth moves Adelia the admired of all admirers. Wearied with constant flattery, she seeks, for a moment, the pure air of the outer heavens; and, as she gazes at the silver crescent above, her thoughts wander far away to another hemisphere, and she murmurs softly, "Clarence, ever mine own." She sees not the forms of two masked figures creeping stealthily behind her. The next moment a stifled cry, the odor of chloroform, a feeble struggle, and a closed carriage rolls rapidly away...