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...imminent crisis which threatens so strongly our present status of peace, it is natural that men who love their country should ask what they can do. "Old men for council," but young men are impatient in council. They want swift action, a blow while the iron is in its whitest heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNSEL BEFORE ACTION | 2/6/1917 | See Source »

...subject of one was The Spy and the Sybil. It treated partly of Balda, who was the purest and whitest of the gods and Loci, who killed him. Balda had dreamed that his life was threatened, and the gods had made all things - the animals and the plants - promise not to harm him. But they had neglected a little plant which grew on the mountains, the mistletoe, which was so small that they thought it could do no harm. Loci heard of this, and possessing himself of a branch, repaired to an assemblage of the gods, when they were throwing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icelandic Saga. | 12/5/1891 | See Source »

...worked on each. These towels absolutely refuse to absorb water, but have a pleasing accomplishment of standing up alone; the more pleasing, that it is neither required nor expected of a towel. There is always a fresh cake of soap in the soap-dish, and the stiffest and whitest of tidies on the chairs, the bureau, the wash-stand, and on every other piece of furniture in the room upon which a "tidy" can possibly be placed or pinned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 4/3/1882 | See Source »

...well - hardly the whitest of white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

Blackest of seas at the base and whitest of spray at the dome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PICNIC. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

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