Word: wars
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Considering it highly necessary for the preservation of a proper harmony, that all the windows should contain figures appropriate to the Hall, they have chosen as suitable for their window - which is to be erected in memory of their classmates who fell in the war - those of Sir Philip Sidney and Epaminondas, as illustrating Chivalry and Patriotism. These figures, which will be about four feet ten inches in height, are to occupy the greater portion of the spaces above the ventilators, in the two parts of the window under the trefoil; around them, in a style corresponding with the subject...
...25th of July dawned, and the day was all that could be desired; in consequence of my position as war correspondent of the Smithville Daily Herald, I obtained a reserved seat on board the stake-boat (a propeller of some 2,000 tons), where also were seated the one hundred Judges, all graduates of Harvard...
...terror produced by the war-whoop of the bloodthirsty savage was simply sickening...
That night, at a council of war to which mine host was admitted, it was decided by two of the most determined of our party to try the last resort, that of coot-shooting on the Point. In this undertaking even the elements combined against us; for on one occasion the eclipse of the moon had such an effect on the tide as to leave the harbor a mass of mud at the time appointed for sailing; and on another, a storm threatening, our prudent skipper would not put to sea. Space fails me to relate how, balked...
...chanced in war...