Word: woke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...woke in Sander's from a dream of peace...
...delegates were followed by a delegation of Puritans - a very well gotten up and correct costume: - gray knee-breeches, short coat and sugar-loaf hat, and a huge belt with a bright buckle. There were about thirty in all in the body, and they had a curious cheer, which woke the echoes...
After this goal Dube and Clancy carried the ball to our defence field, where the men had very little to do and were napping. A lively scramble ensued; Peabody woke up with a start, bodied two men, fell over another, and sent the ball way down the field. The Harvard attack again seized it and after several lobs and passes, Blodgett secured our fifth and last goal. Time, three minutes...
...appears that the occupant of room No. 37 had had his chandelier broken off the evening before, and had stopped up the broken pipe with a wooden plug. To his astonishment when he woke up at quarter of eight yesterday morning, his room was filled of gas, and to ascertain whether it was genuine gas or not, he struck a match, thereby having his doubts very quickly satisfied. The result of the experiment was an explosion so heavy as to be felt all over the yard. The windows of the room were, violently blown out over the sidewalk, the door...
...condition of the Advocate. Our sister had safely passed through the spasmodic outbreak of energy which attended the inauguration of the new board of editors. She was about to relapse into the wonted quiet tenor of her slumberous existence. Suddenly a strange outburst of sound caught her ear, and woke her up again. From the pineclad forests of Maine to the billowy praries of the boundless West; from the frozen confines of the region where the Bates Student pipes its lay to the faraway abode of the Kansas University Review, she heard a swelling chorus resounding in her praise...