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...Torn by a swirling torrent, never fringed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALLEY OF THE VISP. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

Whose ragged walls were torn apart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN PERU. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

After wreaking vengeance on the helpless railroad, the detachment rejoined the main body, which had now reached Cambridge, and a general work of devastation was inaugurated; telegraph-poles were torn down and eaten by the more voracious of the monsters; paving-stones were torn up and thrown into Charles River until the Back Bay Problem was completely solved, no water being now visible for miles around; lamp-posts were thrust into the chimneys of dwelling-houses, and a pyramid of horse-cars five hundred feet in height was constructed, which, with all such drivers, conductors, and passengers as were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REIGN OF TERROR IN BOSTON. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...that he had been deceived; he had advertised, but with no return. Praying that he might be blessed with only one more interview with the honorable youth who had beguiled him into paying twenty dollars to furnish the students with tabular views, the edges of which were ragged with torn advertisements, he slowly plodded homeward his weary way, a sadder and a poorer man. This is really the case; the shopkeepers of the two cities have been persuaded by some one to believe that it is to their interest to have their advertisements distributed to the men at their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RETALIATION. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

With mad contention torn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JUNCTION OF THE RHONE AND THE ARVE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

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