Word: sod
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...young gentleman's intention that his countrymen might find in the book much that would take them home from wherever they might be on the earth. So he wrote of the fragrance and spaciousness of an Irish mansion as old as the green sod it stood in. He kept bringing in the sweep of Irish history through the ancient family trees-old kings and warriors and battles from Queen Maeve in the day of giants to tart Timothy Healy, and the Fenian men humming the "Shan Van Voght," the Song of Defeat, which is through the book like...
...more contribution to the needs of contemporary living the present duty of the University is to make its elder brothers, lecture and class, as useful and interesting as the tutorial system. If this is not done completely, the infant grown may live on alone with his relations under the sod. Half a league onward--the University has gone that far. But to he absolutely successful the whole league must be courageously and adequately covered...
Beneath this sod we lay you down, This seen of glorious fight...
...received and delivered, the rush, the struggle, the victory! They call forth our deep regret and unaffected tears. The enthusiastic cheers, the singing of "Auld Lang Syne," each student grasping a brother's hand, all, all, have passed away and will soon be buried with the football beneath the sod--to live hereafter only as a dream in our memories and in the College annals...
...hills, the Colonel's daughter, the son of a small farmer and fisherman of the Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those who go back to their homes in Norway and those who return again...