Word: cluster
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...palm-house at the Botanic Garden, there is now a large Cycas, or so called Sago palm, in fruit. In the centre of the great cluster of bright green leaves there is a globular mass of reduced leaves of a tawny color, many of them bearing on their edges flat and exposed ovules...
...composed of prominent ladies of the different states, whose object is to purchase the valued furniture and relics of General Jackson now in the Hermitage, also to restore to its original beauty and grandeur, the historic mansion now quite dilapidated, and save to the nation a sacred spot where cluster memories of holy domestic life and unwavering patriotism...
...first article in the December Atlantic describes in a delightful manner one of the most famous of the old time taverns of Boston. The Bunch of Grapes was one of those old-fashioned inns for the entertainment of man and beast about which a thousand historical memories cluster, and whose kindly hospitality, "though lost to sense, still through memory stirs the heart and kindles the imagination...
...Cambridge have been admitted by courtesy and allowed to pass through at any time of day or night. But we begin to doubt the ownership of the college property when we see the part between the college library and Harvard street literally infested with Cambridge muckers. These young ragamuffins cluster there by hundreds almost every afternoon, and even at night; and they make pedestrianism on the path to the library an exceedingly dangerous undertaking by swooping down the hill on their bobsleighs and barrel-staves. They come, too, in such rapid succession that it requires skill and coolness to dodge...
...Lemon Squeezer' of class day is something not met with in every day life, a word of description is pertinent. It is a plain piece of mechanism, devoid of much ornamentation. It is revered and prized, not so much for its intrinsic value as for the memories which cluster around it, and are, upon auspicious occasions, squeezed out of it! The material used in its construction is chiefly pine board, relieved at its further extremity by two hinges of brass, added more for practical use than for external embelishment. Upon its face are various dates of presentation, together with...