Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...were extremely worn by their late exertions on the river, and were indisposed for rowing. The usual noon pull had been dispensed with, and in the evening Hooker, acting as coxswain, coached Sherman and Cameron in the Sophomore pair-oar. They pulled up stream as far as the toll-bridge on Morgan Street, where, about six o'clock, the swell of a tug-boat, passing at some distance from them, caused the water to wash over the bow of the boat, and gradually filled it through holes in the canvas. The oarsmen, having their backs to the bow, were unaware...