Word: graying
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...very ancient-looking horse. Once, perhaps, he was black, but now only a few gray hairs were left in the corners which time had spared. I say corners purposely, for his bones and joints were so large and visible that the beast seemed like some equine jumping-jack, whose tail must be pulled if you would set the legs in motion. This is but an idle fancy, for you might have pulled that tail with all your might and never produced the least result, unless, perhaps, you pulled the poor animal over. Need I say, then, that...
...HARRISON GRAY OTIS, Chairman, Boston...
...DARWIN has dedicated his new work on the "Different Forms of Flowers in Plants of the same Species" to Professor Asa Gray...
...safe to say, the usual number will work, the usual number lie idle, the usual number attain distinction, the usual number be ruthlessly suspended. Prayers and recitations will be cut, summonses and warnings will be issued. Somebody will get into trouble with municipal authorities just as a streak of gray is beginning to appear on the eastern horizon; and somebody may be seen, Thiers-like, at the same hour, in a solitary garret, grinding, ever grinding. Somebody will have ambitious plans for taking honors in history, philosophy, or mathematics, and will, in three months, perhaps be forced to leave these...
...yielded for the purchase of books an income of only $250 per annum. Now there are 164,000 plus volumes, with a permanent fund of $170,000. During his administration there have been, among lesser ones, the donations of the Pickman, Walker, Wales, and Sumner libraries, besides the William Gray Fund of $25,000 for books alone...