Word: waves
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...play lively. These courts are a great addition and have but one fault, which, however, is a great one. The walls are so constructed that it is almost impossible for one man to hear another unless he talks in a whisper. Every noise seems lost in a great wave of the echo and sound...
...beautiful exterior of Mr. G. E. Woodberry's "North Shore Watch" is eminently in keeping with its title and opening poem. The white back and marsh-green covers convey the very impression of wave foam and low white clouds upon sedgy pastures and weedy north shores...
...refined sentiment and deep feeling united with musical expression that Mr. Woodberry has. The North Shore Watch is a threnody for the young friend who died in '78, to whom the book is dedicated. All through the lament the final alexandrines surge and moan like the rhythmic ninth wave that beats upon every shore...