Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stage at one time without speaking, essayed his new wings in a series of extremely ridiculous attempts at flight from the top of the alter, each ending, of course, in disastrous collapse. The Birds were constantly engaged in some comical tricks, one of them going so far so to peck the long hair of the violoncellist in the orchestra, to the great amusement of the audience and the embarrassment of the worthy man. Herakles drank off the contents of the saucepan in which Peithetairos was cooking, when the latter's back was turned; and Prometheus, hiding Zeus under the sunshade...
...typified in the building of Harvard, the patrons of which were not the wealthy few, but the mass of the poor. Gifts of money and of utensils - even to a silver beer-bowl and a jug tipped with silver - were contributed; and to these were added offerings of the peck of corn annually, of meat and ewe lambs, and of everything that could be turned into money. Thus the colonial colleges grew up "out of the sacrificial generosity of the heart of the people...
...think, apply only to deuce sets, as otherwise there might be a manifest disadvantage to one of the players. A motion to do away with two services was lost. The Ayers balls, imported into this country, were declared to be only "the refuse balls of the English market." As Peck & Snyder and Wright & Ditson have joined in making a combination ball, which the executive committee believe will be better than any balls yet used in this country, this ball was adopted by the association as the regulation ball for the ensuing year. These balls will be furnished to association clubs...
...College Series of Latin Authors" edited by Prof. C. L. Smith of Harvard, and Prof. Tracy Peck of Yale is being issued by Ginn and Heath...
...melancholy day for this innocent, unsuspecting world of ours when a feminine foot first pattered its little, ill-omened imprint into its soil. Adam was going along very comfortably straight until Eve put in her appearance, egging him on to mischief, and brewing generally a peck of trouble. And in the same manner I was making really commendable progress, when the door opened, and in walked a young lady and young gentleman...