Word: speckless
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Rather a noble head, white hair and beard, eyes frosty blue, voice alternately brusque or urbane, and he walked always in a silvery gray suit the hue of his cigar ashes. Best seen, he was in the orderly disorder of his speckless, spotless study of a Winter's morning, back to a crackling blaze in the white marble fireplace, drinking strong coffee, smoking a long black cigar and laying down the philological law. "Then," said a devotee, "the old man was sublime...
Last week 3,000 armed men were massed on a plain near Port Clinton, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. All were picked shots. Over their shoulders were slung rifles with well-oiled firing chambers, speckless bores. The walnut stocks were worn, rubbed to an oily, deep brown. Across their backs were stretched bandoleers full of sharp-nosed cartridges. Thousands of rounds of ammunition lay in neat cases around them. To bivouac the force, peaked, tan canvas service tents were thrown up along orderly streets. To many of the riflemen tenting was new. No novelty...
Confession, counsel, poured forth. One time Parson Faunce confessed that, as a sophomore lad, his roommate had told him a bawdy story. It so poisoned his mind that (even after years of speckless living) its smutty ghost soared before him. Students were interested, and speculated on the story. No one asked President Faunce to tell...
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