Word: speared
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Holy relics displayed by three canons during the mass were: a piece of the True Cross, a strip of the linen with which St. Veronica wiped the brow of the Saviour, a fragment of the spear which pierced His side...
Choosing an astronomical symbol for the New Planet is also a problem. Signs of the anciently known planets are conventionalized pictures. Mercury's represents the Caduceus, or head with winged cap; Venus' a looking glass; the Earths its equator and a meridian; Mars', a shield and spear, or a warrior's head with helmet and plume; Jupiter's an eagle; Saturn's a scythe or sickle; Uranus' H for Herschel. with a planet suspended from the crossbar; Neptune's the trident. The first recommended sign for Neptune was a crossbarred L with a planet suspended for Leverrier. That sign might...
...purchased by subscriptions from Law School students, alumni, and friends; of Daniel Webster, by Joseph Ames, purchased chiefly by students' subscriptions immediately after Webster's death, and pronounced by Rufus Choate to be the best likeness of Webster he had ever seen; and of Rufus Choate, by T. T. Spear, a little known Boston artist. The walls of the room are literally covered with cartoons of English, French, and American lawyers which appeared in Vanity Fair; they are the gift of the late Professor John C. Gray...