Word: soled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about 11 o'clock last evening. They dashed up Main street, but were finally stopped by a brave "striker" who ran out, seized one of the animals by the bits and stopped the pair after being dragged about 100 feet. No damage was caused although a young lady, the sole occupant of the carriage was badly frightened...
...maintain its existence. Thus we read in the Reminsicences of an Ex-Pierian that it was "reduced to a single active member, as was the case when Mr. G. held the meeting regularly alone, not forgetting, it is said, to put up the advertising board for his own sole notification each week, calling himself to order, proceeding conscientiously with his solitary rehearsal, practicing upon his flute his accustomed part until the hour of duty was complete, and so striving, not in vain, to keep the sacred flame alive. One might say with perfect truth that the Pierian Sodality attended those...
...verdict will also be a partial judgement of the conference committee, of which the marking system is the sole surviving result, the result of two years thinking by many honorable gentlemen. Shall we ask if it is a worthy result? No, the conference committee is like Caesar's wife above (or at least beyond) suspicion...
...live. The times, however, are not without their advantages. Excitement, though it prevents quiet meditation, stimulates our divine impulses as well as our bodily passions. The age of Cotton Mather would seem cold to us. Wealth, too, brings with it endless good, and though inseparable from luxury, is the sole support of the great philanthropic schemes which are the mark of the Christian Church...
...William Perry, aged 98, and the oldest graduate of Harvard, died yesterday morning at his house at Exeter, N. H. He was the sole survivor of the passengers in Fulton's first steamboat. He was born in Norton, Mass., in 1788, and was a member of the class of 1811, Harvard College. The only surviving member of that class is William R. Rever of Plymouth, Mass, who is 76 years old. Dr. Perry was the grandfather of Sarah Orne Jewett, the authoress...