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Word: sands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1881-1881
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...BURNING August afternoon on Lake Winnepesaukee, hardly a ripple stirred, no sound of life but the monotonous chirp-chirp from the woody shores, and the lapsing water-beats on the white sand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPTER III. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...glassy" floor? A surface of hard sand is not well described by "glassy." To be sure, sand is a necessary ingredient of glass, could the poet have been thinking of any thing so practical. The stanza before the last is as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POETRY OF HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

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