Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four corpses, which are lying upon iron frameworks behind the glass, their heads propped high, their jaws agape, and their eyes staring in all the grim majesty of Death, as they gaze unflinchingly upon the guests who are thronging to this grisly reception. One is an old woman, whose skull has been split by some tremendous blow, and yawns in ghastly redness. Another is a young girl, who is dressed in silk and whose dark hair is still coiled neatly, just as those slender, livid fingers last arranged it. She bears no wound, but upon the small, coquettish face...
...second number of the present volume will be ready Friday, at 4.30 P.M., and will be delivered promptly at rooms of all subscribers whose names are on our list before that time. Those who have not received already their first number, can get it at Sever...
...know not how we can explain responsibility. But if we say that intellect and will are the ultimate elements, the way lies open for an explanation. Let us suppose a will solicited by no motives, and therefore free as a stream is free when it flows unobstructed, yet whose essence, like the essence of the stream, is motion and action. Now this will, by its free activity might enslave itself to passion or ambition, somewhat as the stream, by the force of its own current, might heap up obstacles in its way; yet with this difference, that the stream gathers...
...held in Appleton Chapel, and a very good audience was present. Had the meeting been more widely published, there can be no doubt that the house would have been more than filled. Such speakers as Dr. Peabody, Russeli Sturges, Jr., and Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., are men whose very names are magic...
...alas for the confidence which we so blindly placed in the power and wisdom of that mighty today, the Board of Directors, by whose will, dry crusts of bread can be turned into a savory pudding, and the debris of fricasseed chicken into a warm and nourishing hash. Instead of the quail on toast or tenderloin steaks for which we had starved ourselves for several days, we were regaled with a strange compound called beef pie, a cousin German of our old enemy beef stew, and the entirely novel expedient of fried mush...