Word: streams
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...Goth and the Arab, different in character and mission, alike in magnificence and energy, they came from the north and the south, the glacier torrent and the lava stream: they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is Venice." - Ruskin's Stones of Venice...
Blessed Eunoe, stream of the lotos-fed land...
...talking, one evening, with a member of the present Senior class about the relative merits of Spencer and Mill. I said, "On the whole, I prefer Mill. The stream of Spencer's mind, though being so broad, is of necessity shallow; while on the points that Mill has touched you feel that completeness characteristic of a master mind." "No," he said, " I prefer Spencer. His philosophy is cosmic. You feel a completeness of a higher kind here than in Mill." "By the way," said I, "what books of Spencer have you read?" "Well," he said, "I can't exactly...
FROM the Forest and Stream we learn that the National Rifle Association has offered to make any rifle club in the country an auxiliary, as it were, of the Association, in return for an annual payment of twenty-five dollars. This sum will secure to the club who pays it the right to send some of its members to the annual matches at Creedmoor, to receive a bronze medal from the Association to be competed for by the different members of the club, and several other like privileges. We recommend our Rifle Club to consider the proposition...
Editor Forest and Stream...