Word: whose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...upon to surrender. The drivers whipped up their horses. The provincials fired, killing several horses and two men, when the drivers jumped from their places and fled. The wagons were secured and plundered. The drivers are said to have surrendered themselves to an old woman whom they met, and whose protection they begged. Whereupon there went the rounds of the English papers belonging to the opposition that interesting sum in the Rule of Three...
...Santo Pedro!" said Monsignor McClosky, whose Italian was defective...
...very brilliant effect. It would be perfectly possible for the boat-clubs of Harvard to choose flags of a similar sort. Five flag-staffs could be erected on the boat-house. In the centre the great Magenta banner could be hoisted, and on either side two club-flags, whose colors and designs should be chosen by the members of the clubs. This plan deserves serious consideration...
...hall built by an association of men of acknowledged culture to commemorate the deeds of heroes should have been a monument worthy at once of the culture of the builders and the heroism of those in whose memory it was raised. But what is Memorial Hall? In point of architecture it is (we quote another art-instructor) "about as bad as anything...
...governor "in the good old colony times." I know how the "Indian lover" used to leave off "wooing his dusky mate" and fire bullets through his Excellency's parlor windows; and how, in a later and more peaceful period, the high-heeled and powdered bevy of colonial beauties, whose memory Copley has perpetuated, filled these parlors. In short, I have become a thoroughgoing antiquarian, and am continually recommending to my friends the attractions of the historic walk...