Word: solemnizes
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...author, the Irish writer, give his reflection on the adventure: "It was a mad trip to have undertaken, a solemn request for death: but we did not recognize our folly till we were faced with the unknown, and then the lure of the skyline seized us almost against our wills...
...with red necks: 'Why don't you bathe? You'll get apoplexy. Go for walks! Bathe!' " When he became displeased with Gladstone, "he took [Gladstone's] portrait, called his wife and children, and Gladstone, framed and glazed, was taken in solemn procession to the W.C. and hung up there...
...half, then started back to the coast. But before they started they joined in a little merrymaking. The day was Nov. 1 and Professor Wegener's 50th birthday. A few gentle cheers of Hoch and Gesundheit were swallowed by the Greenland silence; then, a solemn shaking of hands all around, a hollowly hopeful Auf Wiedersehen; and Professor Wegener and Rasmus sledged westward into the Arctic twilight...
...Foreign Offices of the world has shifted from the idea of checks and balances, of military alliances and understandings, to projects and methods for the peaceful settlement of disputes by arbitration and by conciliation, to the reduction and limitation of armaments, by agreement among nations, and to a solemn pledge not to resort to war as an instrument of national policy. I have been fortunate enough in my assignments as Charge d'Affaires in Switzerland and as Chief of the Western European Division in Washington to have had some part both in the efforts for general disarmament its contemplated...
...Death's solemn dirge?but fearless, bold