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Word: throngs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...throng doth wildly press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BURNING OF STOUGHTON. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...Goethe was broken, my O. K. cookies had been eaten, and a mustache had been painted on my favorite photograph of Mary Anderson. Do you wonder that I fell into a gloomy train of thought? 'This Class Day,' said I to myself, as I looked down upon the throng below, 'is a resting-point in a man's life, - a day which makes him forget to think about the future, and leads him to look back upon the years that are gone. And who can look back without a pang? who can recall, without bitter regrets, the pleasant days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN UNDERGRADUATE'S CLASS DAY. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...shadows stretch their lank arms on the wall, And throng the room, while, hardly struggling through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUERY. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...attention of Princeton men. As soon as they reached Princeton a lunch was served for them at the hotel; they were taken in carriages to the ball-ground, and throughout the game were treated with a courtesy which might be imitated to advantage by the spectators who sometimes throng Holmes Field. In the evening, the musical societies gave a concert in honor of the guests, and the following day was marked by similar attentions. A large body of the college accompanied the Nine to the cars, and attested their friendship for the visitors with enthusiastic cheers. Such an evidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

Deserted hall or gayest throng...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BLIND GIRL. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

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