Word: clad
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...surprise find again fresh, well-balanced work. "Admiral's Light" is no exception. It is a breath, all to short, of down-east air, tingling with the strong, salt flavor of sea-girt downs and long, pebbly beaches; a tantalizing glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does not purport to be more than a few stray chapters from the lives of a few people, isolated almost absolutely as are the inhabitants of Eastern Maine. Their interests are circumscribed by the hills...
...clock in the Old South Meeting House, corner of Milk and Washington streets. Boston, on "Harvard Past and Present." The lecture will be illustrated and will consist chiefly of views of the College from its learning to the present time. Where these are lacking, extracts team clad records, books, and lectors will be supplemented...
...failed. Turning to the morally pestilential life of a certain watering place, here called Nouvean Isle, he recounts with zest an incident which, though improbable, might have been made amusing. He is, however, so lacking in narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What is even worse, he seems to take a sophomoric delight in degenerate aspects of social life, and to look with smiling tolerance upon vices which a conscientious artist would lash...
...most striking pieces of the exhibition is the heroic statue of King Arthur, the original of which is in the Hofkirche at Innsbruck. The figure is clad in full armor, the right hand resting on a shield bearing the arms of England. This statue and the effigy from the tomb of the Emperor Maximilian near it, were both executed by the famous sixteenth century sculptor, Peter Vischer. Another interesting piece is the figure of a Frankish warrior of the fifth century, dressed in the national costume and bearing an axe and spear, the original of which is in the Museum...
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