Word: whiteness
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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PERHAPS you saw him with me in the Yard last week, - a long, thin man dressed in black, with a capacious white felt hat resting soberly on his straight black hair, smooth face, and age anywhere from forty-five to sixty? No, you did n't see him? Well, he looked every inch (and he is some seventy-seven inches high) exactly what he is, the leading deacon of the Smithfield Centre Orthodox Church; one of the bluest of the blue, and a most unrelenting enemy of card-playing, horse-racing, dancing, and the theatre. I trembled...
...sunlit silence; white clouds blow...
...white wreaths down the rocky walls...
HORACE, Od. IX., Bk. I. Freshman Class. Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte, "See how deep Socrates stands in the white snow!" - Mercury...
...White House we lived like kings...