Word: shields
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Teutons is said to have vaulted over six horses standing side by side; and another king, Olaf Tryggesson of Norway, according to an old chronicle of that country, was stronger and more nimble than any man in his dominions. He could climb up the rock Smalserhorn and fix his shield on the top of it; he could walk round the outside of a boat upon oars, while the men were rowing; he could play with three darts, alternately throwing them in the air, and always kept two of them up, while he held the third in one of his hands...
...friends may consider his case to be, has been recently illustrated by the very events which indirectly led to the complication of a court trial, and the student whose testimony figured somewhat in the late trial was exempt from criticism by those who are usually disposed to shield wrong doing at all hazards, only because of his uniformly courteous bearing towards his fellow students, the high respect which his general course in college has gained for him, and because his testimony was not volunteered, but was given in the course of ordinary conversation at the table...
...give you therefore, my brethren, the President of the United States: wisdom to the head, courage to the heart, strength to the hands, always of him who shall bear aloft the shield on which are emblazoned the arms of the American Union. (Applause...
...Arundel, with a great retinue of lords and ladies, accompanying the young wife to her new home by the Neckar. Gloom and sorrow follow close after. A jet black steed in inky trappings is led by, mournful and riderless. Black plumes nod on his head, and a broken shield hangs from the empty saddle. He symbolizes the War of the Orleans Succession and the disasters which plunged the "gay court" in deepest mourning. Under Carl Philipp things are more cheerful. It is a time for hunting and merry-making. A huge boar is carried triumphantly aloft in a wagon...
...reads a little, you know. He is up with the lark; he is up with the bat; in fact he is never down. But speaking of being down, I remember a grind who was down once. He was making a call. His amorous eye glared from behind its glassy shield like a cat's eye in the dark. The conversation had flagged. Suddenly he brightened up. "Miss S - S - can you tell me the number of right angles in a triangle?" A pause. "Why it depends on the size of the triangle." That idea had never struck him before...