Word: strandings
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...inspectorial eye twinkled almost as brightly as the diamond clasp on Mrs. Herter's triple strand of pearls. The declaration showed that the Herters had prudently limited their foreign purchases to exactly the amount-$200 worth-which they could bring in free. The inspectors smiled, perhaps to congratulate onetime Collector Edwards upon having such modest, honest friends, and began looking into Herter trunks in a way that promised to be pleasantly perfunctory...
...Canadian Pacific- than which no railroad is better known throughout the world-how were they to feel? They felt the more distressed because of their amazing record of having transported about $25,000,000 of silk every month for 20 years without damage to a single silken strand...
...characters. There are the parallel situations in separate but allied planes, of Martin striving to influence his son, now clad in the costume of the puppet Faust, compared with Haas groping to move his own dolls as freely as dance the marionettes, and the complete harmonious development of each strand of story upon itself and upon every other strand is clothed in the descriptive melody of surrounding Salzaburg and the Tyrolean Alps...
...birds of paradise. In quest of these, adventurers, Australians. Chinamen, and Malays have performed exploits comparable only to those of the pioneers in our West. But with changes in styles, birds are no longer worth hunting, and while the boats of the bird hunters continue to rot on the strand, New Guinea will remain in its present state of mystery and oblivion...
...wrists protruded from his sleeves bonily. His trousers stopped dejectedly far short of his shoes. Over his spectacles fell a strand of straw-colored hair. His Adam's apple gulped ominously within his amp'e collar. He was a grind, a poor boy, a social catastrophe? but he left his books and store-counter to win the big relay race for Ohio State University. Pennants waved; men cheered; girls screamed. A hero emerged from a "poor...