Word: wateringly
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...flash upon the water two miles...
...BURNING August afternoon on Lake Winnepesaukee, hardly a ripple stirred, no sound of life but the monotonous chirp-chirp from the woody shores, and the lapsing water-beats on the white sand...
Madness.De Briggs was rescued by the captain of the canal-boat because he had not yet paid his fare. The water was only nine inches deep anyhow. But his mind was shattered. From an ordinary amateur villain, he became a professional. He became an habitual performer on the cornet. He spent whole months in pursuing the nefarious calling of a book-agent. He sank lower and lower. He was at one time the most degraded free-lunch fiend in all Hoboken. Finally, even the last vestiges of respectability were thrown aside, and he went to Yale. What need to chronicle...
...suggest that a club formed at Harvard would do well to ask its members to join the New Shakspere Society. The reasons that make such a request not improper are briefly these: The New Shakspere Society numbers among its supporters the foremost Shaksperian scholars on both sides the water. At its meetings, valuable papers are read, and important questions discussed, and reports of the proceedings are forwarded to the members. Thus, by joining the Society, one obtains the larger part of all that is best and freshest in the line of Shakspere study. It is very well to praise...
...conclusion of this simple and affecting tale, there was not a dry eye in the room. As soon as the chairman could speak, he called upon their guest from over the water, the distinguished scientist, Mr. H-xley; who, leering facetiously at the Reverend Joseph C-k, arose with some difficulty and addressed the assembly...