Word: urchin
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...joyous for the sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze; or perhaps even such a scene as the movies show on red films, while the orchestra pounds...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Shore Currents and Stream Deflection. Dr. Daly.--A New Palaeozoic Sea-urchin. Dr. R. T. Jackson. Rotch Building...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Shore Currents and Stream Deflection. Du Daly--A New Paleozoic Sea-urchin: Dr. R. T. Jackson. Rotch Building...
...SCENE, Chapel Street Bridge. - Street Urchin (to Capt. Cook). Say, Cap'n, is Kinnidy going to row? C. C. Yes. Street urchin. Is Kinnidy a catholic...
...boat soon stops at a place called Lille-hammer. I understand from my guide-book that I must hire a horse and carriole here for Drontheim. Do not know what a carriole is, but step out on the wharf and call for one loudly. A ragged urchin soon drives up in a curious-looking low gig, with long and slender shafts, inserted between which is a wonderful horse. Wonderful, because, although apparently dead, he is yet really alive. Boy talks volubly in a gibberish quite unintelligible, but as I catch the word "carriole," I conclude that it must...