Word: wave
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Ride on each crested wave...
WHEN the tidal wave of spelling...
Deep, deep under the wave rests my love in his lowly grave...
Your shattered bark from wave to wave is tossed...
...next act was the blowing up of the State House, after which the dastardly Sophomores, forming in line, marched out towards Cambridge, "tearing down fences, demolishing signs, and defacing dwelling-houses"* and slaughtering such a number of persons between Bowdoin Square and Charles River that a great tidal-wave of blood arose and swept away six thousand dwelling-houses from the West End of Boston, drowning, it is estimated, at least ten thousand souls...