Word: sounds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sound of the driving rain...
...WILLIAM BLAIKIE contributes to Harper's for May a very interesting and useful article on the risks of athletic work, in which he gives some sound advice to those in training...
...unusually clear headed for one of his age, and his sound judgment, unbiassed by those things which usually influence young men, was of great service to himself and to those associated with him. He was a true, steadfast friend, and the memory of his kind, honest heart will not soon be lost...
THEY have a piano in the gymnasium at Williams, and they speak of it as one of the gymnasium's properties. Perhaps the Williams students practise calisthenics to the sound of soft music. The Athenaeum also tells us that college students are typical grumblers. For an aphorism this is good...
Then followed a curious rumbling from a set of pipes at the back of the mosque, and this grieved all the youths still more, while some, who sat by the pipes, opened their mouths in agony, but made no sound, respecting, doubtless, the sacredness of the place. This exercise, which seems to have no object, they call in their language Pehn, which means distress or tribulation. As this ceased the young men dashed out, some clearing me at a bound...