Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard street.For sale. - An English river canoe; a Harvard 54-inch bicycle with English lamp and saddle-bag, and a Baker 12-bore, Damascus barrels, rebounding lock double gun, with leather case. Price for the lot, $100. Apply at 8 Holyoke House...
...Harvard street.For sale.-An English river canoe; a Harvard 54-inch bicycle with English lamp and saddle-bag, and a Baker 12-bore, Damascus barrels, rebounding lock double gun, with leather case. Price for the lot, $100. Apply at 8 Holyoke House...
...Branches," a justification from the papers of the Polyglot Club, once a famous institution of the college: "We cut our teeth in the cradle-cut our fingers and capers while children-cut a figure in our teens-and, at last, Atropos, with her black cap and Damascus scissors, cuts short the thread of our existence. Take almost any case that you choose, and you find cutting almost without exception the safest course." And so the changes are rung on "cuts" for a full page more...