Word: solidity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stratum of solid, slippery...
...substantial edifice of brick and granite, containing on the ground floor twenty-two solid granite crypts for the remains of the members of the Lee family. Mrs. General Lee's dust now reposes in one of them. The body of General Lee lies beneath a splendid costly white marble sarcophagus, surmounted with a full length recumbent statue of the general himself. This beautiful piece of sculpture is located in what may be called the second story. It is a spacious apartment of solid stone, the walls of which are paneled to receive appropriate inscriptions, and is lighted from the roof...
...crowded audience was thoroughly interested throughout. It is to be hoped that Dr. Waldstein's duties as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, England, and his lecture courses in the University there, will not prevent other visits, in the lecturing season, to his native city. The solid, and at the same time popular, instruction given by this scholarly and eloquent speaker is just what is needed in America to help direct aright the awakened taste for art in the community. Dr. Waldstein's lecture was repeated last Monday as the first of a series of talks on classical archaeology...
Advice to Freshmen: Honor thy professor in the days of thy youth, that thou mayest be solid before the senior year...
Later a white wooden paling closed the western side; but this in time gave way to the present solid fence. In the early part of the present century only the oldest of the trees were standing. President Quincy planted most of the remainder; and it is to his fore sight that we owe our thanks every spring for the pleasant and grateful shade of our great elms. The paths are many of them simply old short cuts regularly laid out and the slate, brick and plank walks are of quite recent construction. Of the grounds of all the various colleges...