Word: swallow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1890
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...younger men, this fact was quite a revelation to some of the older men who had got all their ideas of foot ball from newspapers. He congratulated all Harvard men that they had proven the sport to be worthy of the best efforts of gentlemen. But, he added "one swallow does not make a summer," and he hoped that the hard work and enthusiasm which had won the victory were but an example to urge future generations of students to earn success by the same means...
...earth works in the valley none is so famous or so interesting in its religious signification as the Great Serpent Mound. The mouth is wide open and is evidently just about to swallow the oval shaped figure which is almost between the jaws. In this oval is a heap of stones, the altar on which the sacrifices were made to the rising sun, towards which the whole oval points. Here, in the altar, the oval and the serpent, are the three symbols of Asiatic religious rites, and that these mound builders crossed the Pacific ocean from Asia is a fact...