Word: storming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Each side the storm maintaining...
...storm of the last two days has interfered with many of our out-door sports. The shooting match, the bicycle ride to Auburndale, and the Harvard-Cochituate game which were to take place yesterday, have all been postponed...
...twelve miles without a break, in the barge. Sliding seats were used in this row for the first time this year, but the distance allowed to each man was limited to a few inches. The last row before breaking up, was taken on Saturday morning in a driving rain storm. Form that time until Wednesday afternoon by a four-mile pull in the harbor. All the coaching was done by Mr. Hull from the launch. The positions were occupied as follows...
...into the middle of the room. At home the old sofa stood beneath a window too, and I remember when quite a child kneeling upon it to look out and watch the birds that came for crumbs, and the snowberry bushes outside waving too and fro in the storm, or budding peacefully in the warm sunlight. Then how often in childish fits of anger or fretfulness, have I rushed to it, and buried my face in the cushion, and watered the mammoth flowers with my tears...
...lulled to sleep. Occasionally his opinions clash with those of his father in regard to pecuniary arrangements, or he is interfered with respecting the method which he has decided to be most advantageous for the promotion of his studies. These are but passing clouds, but they presage the storm to come...