Word: web
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath of a pain in the stomach or a fall from his horse. Montaigne more than any other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays is a kind of web wherein to entangle every winged thing (of the smaller kind) that comes along, while he, sitting at the centre, feels from all quarters the faintest vibration that gives promise of mental food. Not a chance mote can be driven against it by the wind that does not send a thrill...
...very good one too. Several of the members of the troupe are well known popular favorites, as Gus Williams and Trewey, the equilibrist; others are equally well known by reputation. The dancing of the Galety girls, and of Kate Seymour was very well received, and the spider web specialty of the Athols was excellent. The engagement of the company is for one week only...