Search Details

Word: revelation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...charge of the field man? Numbered badges would make the identity of offenders easy, while any system would thin out worthless material and do away with the present insolence of the little fellows. He who prefers his game without shack accompaniment would be in peace while shack users would revel in happiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SHACKS." | 4/19/1886 | See Source »

...Oberlin they revel in an antiquated Biole weighing 25 pounds. It was printed in Germany about the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/19/1885 | See Source »

...explosion in a French theatre at Revel, yesterday, resulted in a panic, attended with considerable loss of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 4/13/1883 | See Source »

...last week in May at Cambridge University happening after the great test examinations of the year is given up to revel and gaiety. The annual races of the colleges are then held. Balls, parties and social meetings fill up the week. He who should suggest the abolition or curtailment of either of the university carnivals, says a recent writer in Chamber's Journal, would be regarded as a revolutionary innovator, no less dangerous than if he had proposed to pull down "Tom Quad," or to let out as building-plots the university cricket-ground. The great "bumping" races that occur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FETE WEEK AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. | 12/7/1882 | See Source »

...thing more, as to the "hic jacet." Is not this last attack the best way to stir up a real old-fashioned theatre party? If the custom was dead, why revive it again by trying to turn a quiet theatre party of forty fellows into a noisy revel of a whole class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AT THE THEATRE. | 10/31/1882 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next