Word: stood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Wisby stands now an old ruined town, surrounded by the fragments of what was once a magnificent wall, two miles long and thirty feet high, in the cracks of which the poor have built their hovels. Sixteen churches once stood in the town, of which twelve remain as ruins...
...President Cleveland is thoroughly fitted to carry out Democratic principles.- (1) He has made those principles what they are-(a) Committed the party to tariff reform in 1886: Cong. Record, XVIII, 6-7, (Dec. 6, 1886)-(b) Has always positively stood for sound money...
...made President in a burst of popular gratitude": Nation, XXX, 342.- (b) Was a bad executive.- (w) Administration was full of scandals: Nat. Quar. Rev. XL, 377.- (x) Surrounded himself with men of low character: Nation, XXX, 342.- (y) Was a military executive: Nat. Quar. Rev., XL, 391.- (z) Stood for no definite policy: Nation, XXX, 342.- (I) The choice would have been the supremacy of the man, not of principles...
...edition of tall black volumes of double columns, fine print, and grotesque cuts-and Mr. Copeland deplored the fact that people in these days, remembering too much against Dickens for his unreal pathos, forget to read him for his real though fantastic humor and his vigorous, wonderful caricatures. Thackeray stood side by side with Scott and Dickens. "Pendennis," "The Newcombes" and "Vanity Fair" were in the tall black volumes with the double columns and Thackeray's own drawings. The lecturer recalled among these the scenes of Colonel Newcombe meeting Rumum Lal at his sister-in-law's party...
...hand with an apple. The restoration has been attempted in several ways. Some have thought the Venus to be one of a group of figures, others have restored her "juggling with the apple," still others have placed a column for her arm to rest upon. The figure probably stood close up against something, her left arm resting upon some support, her right arm bent across the body, and her left foot resting upon some object...