Word: outer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After the reporter had waited about an hour, the valet returned and said that the poet was occupied with inspirations from the outer utterness, and could see no one. The reporter, without losing heart, again sent up his card, this time taking the precaution to write in one corner, "Of the inner brotherhood...
...counter as far as his long, thin form would allow; and the customer himself, resting against a barrel, forgot about Indian meal and sugar, and looked at the speaker. Presently, Captain Peregrine ended, and the customer was duly served; and then it was that this same customer, opening the outer door, stumbled over the waiting child...
That when our outer shell...
...dungeons beneath. He gazed in silent awe at a huge tablet, not able to decipher the rude inscription. "Al lnoti ceswi llbe rem o vedf rom." "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," he might have said, had he been a member of the Dante Society. Within the outer court of this castle was another flight of stone steps, winding up to a door marked 5, presumably in reference to the five dragons within, who were very terrible beings, as little Henry soon found out. The first of these dragons was Apex, the greatest and most terrible...
...outer gate I noticed a stone shaft that I found to be one of the circular points at Infinity, the end of the axis of the universe. On entering the Museum I saw a statue inscribed, "To D. P. G. A. T." "This was the American Inner Secretary," said my guide; "he was killed by a tribe of Indians who lived near Boston; a dinner was then given in honor of his memory, and by the sale of tickets, funds for this statue were raised. Great disputes arose about the affair, however, and the monument was sent here for safe...