Word: skeletons
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...unbearable stench was caused yesterday in some of the rooms in Holyoke, by a gentleman who was cleansing the skeleton of a horse by some chemical process...
Sprague, the living skeleton, has disposed of his bones to Harvard Medical College, when he gets through with them...
...clock the procession was ready to move. It was headed by a band which played triumphal martial music, after which the lectors, bearing their flaring torches, marched in a double row. Then Legendre, represented by a wooden skeleton, attired only in a red flannel shirt, was ignominiously hauled to his doom in a brick cart, in which rode his executioners. After him marched the triumphant sophomores in a band fifty strong, bearing torches and Roman candles, and thus making their pathway glorious. After the conquerors marched the invited guests from the other classes of Columbia, presenting an imposing appearance...
...example of 82's most striking case of attentuatedness. When this physically thin individual sat for negatives, he stuffed his cheeks with cotton, in order to give himself a fictitious appearance of a homo vivus and to remove the suspicion that his photograph was the picture of a skeleton clad in senior clothes...
...petroleum surmounted by a bull which knowingly winks his right eye; one hoof is raised to the side of the nose for some unaccountable reason - probably wants to scratch it. The petition has evidently been carefully sealed in an envelope that seems to have been opened by some skeleton hand. The paper had a sulphurous smell, but for what reason we can not divine - for what there is about a sealed envelope to make people swear - but never mind...