Word: stood
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...steps of the Holmes House, made a prayer before the soldiers just starting for Bunker Hill. Harvard was now entirely given over to the military. Two thousand men were quartered in her halls, and earthworks were thrown up on the College green. In the old meeting-house, which stood very near where Dane Hall now stands, the minute-men and the famous Committee of Safety were organized...
Forget not thy youngest who throng where they stood...
...stood in the doorway for a moment, looking about the room; then he took his cigar out of his mouth and spat upon the floor; then, having replaced the stump, he staggered down the whole length of the table, and lurched into a chair at the other end of the room; and then, at last, he saw fit to take off his hat, which he threw to a table near him. Having taken his seat, he stared at the company for a while, expectorated a second time, and finally, calling the waiter, remarked "Brandy!" in a voice whose twang rivalled...
CHAP. XV.2. And in those days there was a city, and a temple stood within the city...
...priests of the temple stood within its doors, and ministered to them that passed by of their plenty, both to great and small, to them that worshipped within the city and to the stranger from beyond the gates...