Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening Rev. George A. Gordon occupied the pulpit in Appleton Chapel. His text was the ninth verse of the sixteenth chapter of Judges: "And she said unto him. The Philistines be upon thee Samson. And he brake the withes as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known...
...Dana, second by a few yards, arrived only ten minutes after the hares, and therefore won the run. The course was round Beacon Park, through the grounds of the Hawthorn to the Brighton slaughter houses, then by the west end of Mt. Auburn round Fresh Pond home. The brake was made at the corner of Brattle and Fairweather streets...
...Canadian bicyclist was recently coasting down a steep hill when his brake gave way. Arriving at the bottom of the hill he came to a bridge through which he had to pass, but when he saw a team of horses coming toward him he endeavored to avoid a collision. The result was that he was thrown a distance of 20 or 30 feet, where he was suspended by his clothing catching on to a pin of the bridge...
There were voices that brake in sobs that night...