Word: wigwam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...informed that a strong team has already been put in training, and that a challenge has been sent to the Harvard Polo Club. But this time, though it is evident that Yale is hunting for one more scalp wherewithal to complete the mural decorations of its wigwam, Harvard must beg to be excused. We don't play that kind of polo. We are lazy, it must be granted, but still it looks rather well to trot through our games on ponies, and, since we trot through our classics in the same way, everything is in keeping, and the tout ensembles...
...picture of the old tree with its affluent branches, making a "cavern of cool shade." Below the roots of the tree is a pretty little scene representing a very wooden-looking soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature which many a freshman wishes could apply to his physics or analytics - it cannot be opened. Another interesting relic in the room is a plaster cast of Cromwell's face made from the mask taken after death by the sculptor, Thomas Woolner. After passing...
Once more her own, approached the wigwam...
...then vaulted through the woods. I laid hands on a vagrant hyena and did likewise. He swam over lakes; I also swam over lakes. He bounded-over torrents; I also bounded over torrents. He scaled cliffs; I also scaled cliffs. At last we stopped before the door of a wigwam. In the darkness within I could just discern a female form. I sprang from my hyena, and, rushing-into the hut, fell into the arms of - Carolinda? no - Adelinda Higginsworth...
...wassail in his wigwam near...