Word: stream
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story but the clotted handful of the murderer's hair which the police took next morning from the rigid fingers of his victim. A bulky and heavy sack, stained crimson, is silently brought to the river side at dead of night, and its contents are dropped noiselessly into the stream. What these contents are, let us not too curiously inquire. If the fishes leave anything, we shall probably hear of it from the officers of the Morgue. A dark, heavily veiled figure is pacing the Pont Neuf slowly and irresolutely. A human soul has been delivered over to the worm...
...they are the slowly evolved product? If so, I know not how we can explain responsibility. But if we say that intellect and will are the ultimate elements, the way lies open for an explanation. Let us suppose a will solicited by no motives, and therefore free as a stream is free when it flows unobstructed, yet whose essence, like the essence of the stream, is motion and action. Now this will, by its free activity might enslave itself to passion or ambition, somewhat as the stream, by the force of its own current, might heap up obstacles...
During the storm yesterday afternoon long blue flames were seen to stream up from the lightning rods on University, showing that the atmosphere was in a highly electrified condition...
...still to infirm to assist in the good work of quenching the thirst of the parched students. It is strongly suspected that the revival of one of these landmarks, or rather yard-marks, has been brought about by the Total Abstinence League in the hopes of turning aside the stream of humanity which frequents at this time of the year the neighboring beer saloons. Whether this suspicion be true or false, the fact remains that we have at last after many complaints succeeded in accomplishing the restoration of the pump. Pure water will hereafter be plenty, and the membership...
...need of a spring board at the north end of the walk from Sever to Memorial. The sewers on that side of Broadway are clogged up, and on rainy days for some time it has taken a pretty good "running long" jump to clear the swelling tide. Tuesday the stream was wider than ever, and many poor jumpers failed to clear it. A spring-board on the sidewalk would save the weaker ones the trouble of going around the block...