Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gilmore band concert at Mechanics' hall last evening was attended by four thousand people...
...other is indeed remarkable. His stature is so large as almost to be gigantic; his form is massive, yet not unwieldy; his face serious, yet not stern; his eyes full of craft, if not of thought; his body black and glossy, except across the breast, where runs the band of white hair, the birth-mark of nobility. His age cannot be more than a score of years...
...them, Freshies!" "Down with them, Sophs!" the Seniors urging on the Sophomores, and the Juniors the Freshmen. Soon the football was forgotten, and the game was wont to take the appearance of the traditional bloody rush. Usually the fight became so fierce that there was need of a band of proctors to clear the field. Often six or seven of the Sophs ruminated over this night's struggle for six months in some retired spot in Maine or New Hampshire. In 1860 the Faculty, feeling the contests had grown too savage in late years, decided to prohibit the encounter...
Gentle yet strong as iron band...
...constructed defence of jelly and tin combined in certain proportions. Though small and seemingly any thing but robust, it would have been worse than prolepsis - to would have been a terrible anacoluthon - to suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head that mortal ever beheld. Clad cap-a-pie in chain armor he surveyed with sweeping glance the whole quadrangle. His single offensive weapon - a sword-cane - he used with such skill and precision that he could transfix an enemy with it every time...