Word: walked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town, he wandered into a swamp, was bitten by a deadly stingray; into a smugglers' camp, was befriended ; into a native train guard, was jailed, far inland. He escaped from jail, hatless, bootless, penniless; cleaned up a barroom with his good right fist (the jacket design), set out to walk to Los Agostino, 110 miles away across the Sierras, to get news of his ship, of his lady. Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness. Over the hazardous ice-fields of the Sierras, where only a single man in 100 years had passed before him, he went...
...afternoon David got up from his siesta and took a walk on the roof of the royal palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. She was a very beautiful woman to behold, and David sent to make inquiries about her. Someone said: "That must be Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite...
...find that when I walk around my library table for an hour before dinner and think of the subject I'm to talk on, everything I have ever heard or read about that subject comes back to me. After my speech, I go home and am in bed about 11 o'clock. The next morning, I am fresh and ready to be at work on time. For years, I worked in my office without even going out to lunch ?I ate it on my desk...
...leave Cambridge on Saturday morning and stop off at New Haven that afternoon where they will sit in a group at the Harvard-Yale game. That evening they will journey on to New York, where they will spend the night at the Hotel Vanderbilt. On Sunday morning they will walk over the Van Courtland course to get an idea of the lay of the land. The next 24 hours will be devoted to rest and relaxation for the team, and on Monday afternoon they will line up at the start of the race which will determine the Intercollegiate hill...
...Cabinet. A short walk down the Mall, then up the steps and past the Duke of York's Column and into Waterloo Place went Mr. Baldwin. At No. 1 Pall Mall, on the corner of Waterloo Place, he was seen to enter; for it was the Carlton Club, headquarters of the Conservative Party. Soon after, a stream of messages summoned the leading lights of the Party to the Club; and the following day, Mr. Baldwin began Cabinetmaking. His choice, which was everywhere termed courageous...