Word: killing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...about to execute some treasure-hunters. Two young reporters, Phil Spayce and Lord Howe Poor arrive, soon followed by a yachting party of Bostonians. The general wishes to put them to death, but Spayce, whose lady-love is a member of the party, secures their release by promising to kill the bull...
...ineffective. (a) Its condition, that a bill must be finished in morning hours of two consecutive days, or go on calendar as unfinished business, put it at mercy of speaker. (3) Method of obtaining from the Committee on Rules a day for considering a measure, enables Speaker to kill it. (a) As chairman of that committee he may neglect to call a meeting. (4) He can refuse without appeal to entertain any motion as dilatory. (Carlisle, No. Am. Rev., 150, 395.) D. Powers of Speaker are out of accord with ideas held by framers of Constitution. (1) Their idea...
...copperhead and the rattlesnake. The former is hardly as poisonous as is generally supposed, but is very ready to attack people. The rattlesnake is rather rare in New England, but each year a few are found in the Blue Hills and in the woods around Lynn. These creatures kill their prey by means of the venom which is secreted by means of a tube running to the base of their hollow teeth. These snakes cast off their skins several times each year, and every time that this occurs a rattle is added to their tails. These rattles are very fragile...
...that college is concerned. The results that followed the forbidding of games with other colleges in 1885, are a sufficient proof of that to those who have seen Harvard's long, hard struggle to get back to equality with Yale. If it is the purpose of the Faculty to kill the game at Harvard, the means taken will prove most effective...
...When Henry Adams was teaching Ancient Law at Cambridge in my day, he used to say that one of the inalienable privileges of the early Anglo-Saxon was the right to kill his neighbor. That privilege you have nobly foregone. You have shown that a hard tackle does not necessarily involve, as a matter of conscience and patriotic duty, the breaking of a collar bone; and you left your opponents life enough to finish the game and limbs enough to get back to Cambridge. For this old John Harvard thanks you from the bottom of his grateful heart...