Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family, though poor, gave a great feast for him to which they invited Prince Ahab and his daughter, Judith. Through a night of soft blue airs and revelry, under boughs that let fall their petals like odorous snows, Jonah and Judith walked together; and the gaunt prophet, friend of foxes, trembled with love for the pale daughter of a Prince. She, also moved by love, was kind to him; they kissed under a jasmine vine. "I should like to be poor like you," she said. All night, all night, when she was gone, Jonah wandered through the orchards of Zebulon...
...young man began to beg her to kill him and so mercifully end his suffering. He suggested that she should shoot him through the mouth. At first she refused and then, one night, "Suddenly I felt I must obey," she said in a soft, low voice that sounded throughout the court with dread distinctness. Her lover had said to her: "When you realize that all hope is gone, then for pity's sake save me unnecessary suffering. Shoot me in the mouth; that's the best place." She took a pistol, held the muzzle close to her lover's lips...
...bear his great weight. A strange cavalcade left Tazreut. First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh. Second, came a huge, ill-fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban; under if, his little black eyes rolled and blazed alternately in pain and fury. His black-dyed beard was partially hidden in the soft, white woolen garments which swathed his bloated body. Third, came four of Raisuli...
...Rubber, American Woolen, American Chicle, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Somerset Coal. Mr. Flint is now 75 years of age, but his favorite occupation still has such a hold upon him that he is now planning the largest project of his life?a $100,000,000 merger of soft-coal companies in West Virginia, involving about 75,000 acres of undeveloped coal fields, 150 producing mines, and an annual production of over 20,000,000 tons...
Since the Harvard game, the Yale sextet has engaged in three contests, winning two, and tying the other. The Dartmouth skaters were tied in a two period game played on soft ice in New Haven on February 2, but on ice nearly as bad at Hanover, last Saturday the Green sextet was defeated 3 to 1. On Wednesday night, a much improved Boston University team was turned back at the Arena by a 2 to 1 margin, the brilliant work of Captain Jenkins featuring the work of the Blue skaters...