Word: archangel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dreamed of the end of the world; and the rocks were cleft, as he stood before the old University library at Cambridge. Suddenly the earth yawned, and there bustled out of the chasm, with a roar from a long silver trumpet, and the tintinnabulous sound of bells, the archangel, clad in white robes of dazzling brilliancy. From Thayer and Matthews and Hollis and Weld and Stoughton and Holworthy and Grays, rushed the frightened students. They stopped not to admire the classic features of the gleaming angel, but on they sped...
...persons to be granted amnesty by the Czar on the occasion of his coronation, will include civilians exiled to Archangel and soldiers drafted to disciplinary companies...