Word: torning
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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With mad contention torn...
Then o'er the field our torn flag tossed...
...mended and torn...
Under the circumstances, we cannot blame the author for reverencing his mother, especially when she is arrayed in her jacket which is mended where it is torn; but if he would spend the time, in some lucrative employment such as saw-filing, which he wastes in torturing the ear with such - as this, both his mother and the world would doubtless be better...
...trembling hands as he sat there in the dying firelight) leader of the trembling crowd of Freshmen on the Delta on one of the first nights of the year, and given "warning," and followed the spinning ball right among the ranks of the Sophomores, coming out victorious, though with torn clothes and covered with scratches. I remember he seemed to impart some of his fire to me, for a patriotic thrill passed through me as he told of the meeting held by Adams, Otis, Hancock, and others in little Holden just before the Revolution, or how, a few months later...