Word: urchin
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...Burk, when he was a boy in Philadelphia, was sensitive to the extraordinary past whose echoes were still in the country around him. He picked up an Indian battle axe one day and, like many another U. S. urchin, stared with a long wonder at this emblem of forgotten hatred and forgotten fear. After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that...
...amazing degree. From the walls of the small gallery in which the facsimiles were displayed, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa smiled down with an inscrutability which seemed no different from that which she bestows upon her admirers in the Louvre. The Blue Boy, Gainsborough's polite urchin, wore his own shiny silk breeches and not a shabby imitation. The cracks across a Michaelangelo fresco were so perfectly reproduced by the lines across the facsimile, that, until inspected from a distance of less than six inches, it seemed possible to trace them with an inserted fingernail. In actual finish...
...tumult, while the words that he read stirred a music in his mind. He grew up vain, erratic and melancholy, visited by visions of a strange beauty with which he informed his gay or bitter verses. As he waited for the death that teased him like an urchin, remembering all the treacheries of his heart and the triumphs of his mind, he said: "God will forgive me?that is His business!" Admired by many while he lived, he was never so sympathetically, hence so completely, comprehended then as he is now by Biographer Browne, who, with the able research assistance...
...urchin, questioned in the street as to how he had managed to acquire a new suit of clothes and as to why he was tearing down posters from a wall, said, grinning: "Don't you see our uniforms? We spent a fortnight at one of these kids' homes and they outfitted us fine. Then, of course, we skipped. So now we are getting sheets to keep us clean...
...exhibited a burst of U. S. energy. He went through a mock arrest, telling Sir John Knill, the acting Lord Mayor, "It's the sword makes me own up, my Lord." He dashed to luncheons, teas, handshakings; tried out the Lord Mayor's chair, a chipper urchin among greybeards; rattled questions about London slums and busses; missed his dinner; clapped at the theatre; consoled Mrs. Walker for losing her largest trunk. He startled his Manhattan subordinates by calling up on the radiophone to say, "Hello, how is everybody over there?" Mrs. Walker took her turn at the instrument...