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Word: verdant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...VERDANT GREEN," "Tom Brown," and "Five Years at an English University," afford any amount of information about the chapels, dining-halls, "quads," and student life in general at Oxford. But I do not remember that any one of them gives the best time made in the quarter-of-a-mile race or the one-hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS AT OXFORD. | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

While standing on thy verdant brink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Brooklet. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

When healthy and verdant he came into college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE FROM A CONTENTED MAN. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

Where, hid beneath each verdant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOCLES, OEDIPUS COLONEUS. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

...verdant as you please...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ADVENTURES OF ASHER CRIMERSTICKS, FRESHMAN. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

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