Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spray-song and wind-song rang thro' his ears...
...several days over how I should try to meet her again, and at last decided to call at her house. So, one afternoon, putting on silk hat, frock coat, gaiters, &c., I sallied in town, looking as la-da-da and mashful as possible. Arriving at the house, I rang; the door was quickly opened by a little girl, who, on seeing me, ran through the hall shouting, "Here he is, at last." Surprised at such a reception, I hesitated, thinking it some deep-laid plot to entrap me, but finally I entered. In a moment an elderly lady came...
...entered the grounds, ascended the steps, and rang the bell. The door was opened by one of those giddy girls, and I began : "Daughter of the fairest race of women on this continent, do I judge aright, after the conglomerate circumlocutions of this morning, that before me stands the maiden who will bid me rest my weary limbs in her father's palatial halls?" She replied with a disdainful glance : "Oh! I know yez, yez be one of them air students from Cambridgeport;" and turning to her nice little pet dog, she said, "Seize him, Roger." I started...
...walked along. Now the village lights were sunk in the distance, and the black shadows of the Ardennes stretched out ghostly arms to meet us, to receive us in their gloomy embrace. Did he not remember the blow, did he not remember Madelon? He shivered as a long howl rang like music in my ears, and murmured to himself that a cross-bow would not have been amiss; but still the wolves would seldom attack two, and if they did, a serf more or less made little difference, and while they were busy with me he could escape...
...when Jones rang no sound could be induced