Word: train
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dark misfortune's baleful train...
...time of our Great Fire, because he had seen it bring out the courage and energy of the citizens of Boston. Without taking exception to this remark, we should like to see another kind of fire, - a fiery exorcising of that spirit of evil which brings on a "baleful train" of disaster. We should like to see a warm excitement of the conscientiousness of individuals to keep them continually alive to justice; we should be glad to realize a thorough awakening of conscience and heart...
...hotels had been reported full for two days, and still every train brought its contribution to the increasing throng. The effects of this wholesale packing were visible at the breakfast-table. Those who had enjoyed the princely hotel accommodations of six in a small room affected a dignified negligence in dress, while those who had taken their lodging on billiard-tables and hotel sofas made no attempt to conceal their real feelings, and looked miserable enough...
...rooms! So it is; but let us not despair, even though a condition in Physics is the price of our neglect, for have we not all gained something more, perhaps something better, though we are conscious of it only when the remembrance of some mood or some train of thought of a year ago contrasts it with our present position? If we have not gained much positive knowledge, we have at least got a broader and deeper view of the world without us and within...
...that, shortly before our arrival, a respected classmate had shot, comet-like, into the society of this town, brightened it for a week with a thousand college tales, in which he generally appeared as hero, and finally departed, leaving the minds of the natives thoroughly illuminated by his train of fabrications. On hearing the name of this gallant scion of Harvard, we succeeded in recollecting a very quiet, unobtrusive fellow, who, while at Cambridge, spends his nights in grinding, and during the day varies the monotony of attending recitations by the same delectable employment. If this be the talk...