Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...RENT.- In Hilton Block, splendid room, first floor. Enquire of janitor...
...opinion of the best oarsmen whom I have met, that in 1885 certain faults crept into the Harvard stroke and that they have never been wholly eradicated. Consequently while crews composed of splendid winning material have gone year after year to New London, victories have been few and far between...
1y.FOR SALE. - Imported English Bull Dog 2 yrs. old, color brindle, splendid disposition. Apply at Morse's Stable, Prescott Street, off Harvard...
...early church, he said, owed its splendid organization, its magnificent hierarchy to Rome; but all that was permanently vital and formative came from Greece. When Christianity was still young, the strong literary spirit of the Greeks had a decided effect on it. Thus their elegant rhetoric soon put an end to the spontaneous prophesying which was common in the first days of the church, and made way for the preaching of modern times. It used to be thought that the Christian church was an entirely new phenomenon; but this is far from true. It is only unique in its idea...
...Byron had "the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects-the excellence of sincerity and strength." [Quoted from Swinburne's Essays and Studies...