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That seems to sway in tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A FLIRT. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...from thy sway go free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prescribed Courses of the Junior and Sophomore Years, | 6/25/1875 | See Source »

Ruled the country with regal sway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOPPARD. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...Arabian Nights, to Aspinwall, a city infinitesimally small and infinitely bad. On the whole, my "Search after Happiness" in tropical climes had not been a startling success, and I determined to take the first opportunity to reach a civilized country where the Dress Reform had not such complete sway, and where one could search for a lady with Diogenes's lantern; though I fear even that would be useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

...from Watertown to the spot afterwards to be made famous by the great Taft, without entangling their oars, or rather paddles, in the frequent drawbridge. No gas-works as yet disturbed the sylvan freshness of the scene; horse-car tracks were unknown; the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows. Peelers were unknown; offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck beak. Even the mucker element (which we may consider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOWN vs. TOWN. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

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