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Word: stretch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...movable slides in the ceiling can be opened, giving plenty of air to each and every occupant of the car." When the eighteen nickel-plated lamps are all going at once, the top of the car must present the appearance of being upholstered with buttons when the unhappy artists stretch their heads out of their respective panels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODJESKA'S PALACE CAR. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...shadows stretch their lank arms on the wall, And throng the room, while, hardly struggling through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUERY. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...vain do I stretch out my neck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

...evident he was suffering from the effects of a recent fall. Swan gradually but surely decreased the distance between himself and Sturgis. Sturgis rode a brave race. On the last quarter of the last lap they were neck and neck, and, as they came driving down the home stretch, the excitement was intense, the cries of each man's friends resounding loud and long. They crossed the finish the same second, Swan leading by not more than six inches. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEETING OF THE H. A. A. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »

...lost in laying out a track there, and a fifth-mile track will probably be the size selected. This size of track has many advantages over any other: it is less expensive to make; is more interesting for the spectators; is large enough for bicycle races; the back-stretch is just the length to run 100-yard dashes and hurdle races on, and should be made of extra width with this end in view. Stones should be sunk in the earth to mark the start and finish of the 100-yards; the 220-yards; 120-yards hurdles, with stones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

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