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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.6 (search)
ure in the gathering, and his sentiments were a law to his household. He stood in the forefront, of medium size, corpulent, rubicund, and so genial, it was impossible to withstand him. My word, laddy! thou art a fine boy! Why, I had no idea they could raise such as thou in Wales. What hast been living on to get so plump and round — cheeks like apples, and eyes like stars? Well, of all!--I say, Mary, John, my dears, why are ye standing mute? Give the laddy here a Lancashire welcome! Buss him, wench! He is thy first cousin. Teddy, my lad, come up and let me make thee acquainted with thy cousin. Kate, step forward, put up thy mouth, dear; there, that is right! Now welcome, a thousand times, to Liverpool, my boy! This is a grand old city, and thou art her youngest citizen, etc., etc. He was so breezy and bluff of speech, and so confident of great things for me in Liverpool, that I forgot I was in the city of noise and smoke, as well as my first dread of it. He was the fi
the end between the two, and makes all fast. c is a breech-loading cannon, having a bushing secured by joint-screws and a reinforce on the exterior. d is a metallic hub with an inner bushing to form the axle-box. Bush-scythe. A stout short scythe for cutting brush and briers. Busk. A stiffening bone or plate in a corset, to maintain its shape and prevent its gathering in folds and wrinkles around the waist. The busk is made of wood, steel, brass, whalebone, or vulcanite. Buss. (Vessel.) A two-masted fishing-vessel of from 50 to 70 tons burden. It has a cabin at each end. They have a designe to get the king to hire a docke for the herring busses to lie up in. — Pepys, 1661. Bust. A statue of the upper part of the person, embracing the head, shoulders, and breast. Lysistratus, the sculptor, is cited as the inventor of casting busts, etc., from molds, 328 B. C. Busts from the face in plaster of Paris were first taken by Andrea Verocchi, A. D. 1466.
ngay.Doney. Barca.Dory. Barcon.Dow (dhow). Barge.Dredge-boat. Bark.Drogher. Barquantine.Dug-out. Barque.Dummy. Batardates.Dwang. Bateau.Farcost. Becasse.Felucca. Bilalo.Ferry-boat. Bilander.Fire-ship. Bireme.Flat-boat. Bir-lin.Floating-battery. Boat.Floating-light. Bomb-ketch.Fly-boat. Brig.Fourth-rate. Brigantine.Frigate. Broad-horn.Frigatoon. Bucentaur.Funny. Budgero.Galeas. Buggalow.Galiot. Buggy-boat.Galleon. Bumboat.Galley. Bunder-boat.Gallivat. Bungo.Garkookah. Buss.Gaydiang. Cable.Gig. Caique.Gondola. Canal-boat.Grab. Canoe.Gunboat. Caper.Hawker. Carack.Hermaphrodite brig. Caracore.Hooker. Caravel.Horse-boat. Carvel built.House-boat. Catamaran.Howker. Chain-boat.Hoy. Chebec.Hulk. Chop-boat.Ice-boat. Cigar-steamer.Iron-clad. Clipper.Iron-vessel. Coaster.Jigger. Cock.Jolly-boat. Collier.Junk. Coracle.Kajak. Keel-boat.Remberge. Ketch.Scamparia. Koff.Schooner. Launch.Scow. Life boat.Sectional boat. Lighter.Settee. Light-ship.Sh
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 21: Germany.—October, 1839, to March, 1840.—Age, 28-29. (search)
Bissing, Dr. Frederic Bissing died about 1874. He was second Burgermeister (Vice-Mayor) of Heidelberg, and for many years represented the district of Heidelberg in the Diet of Baden, meeting at Carlsruhe. who has already translated Chancellor Kent on our Constitution, thinks of translating your great work on the Constitution. He is now studying it with great delight. Dr. Julius says, in his book on America, that your work has gone to a second edition in four volumes. Is this true? A Dr. Buss, of Tubingen, has already translated the historical part, and intended to go on with it; but he has recently experienced a political change against democratic institutions, and has thrown up the work. The Conflict of Laws was to have been translated by Dr. Johannsen, of Heidelberg, but he has died; so that project has failed. To George S. Hillard. Heidelberg, Feb. 26, 1840. dear Hillard,—Still at Heidelberg. I trust this greeting to you will go by the British Queen, though I fear
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., Medford Historical Society. (search)
Ayers, Fred E. Baer, John Willis. Balcom, Edward H. Barker, Abner H. Barker, William S., Jr. Barrett, Miss Mary C. Barstow, Rev. John. Bean, James. Bemis, Miss Fannie E. Bird, Charles H. Black, Miss E. Adelaide. Blanchard, Miss Sarah J. *Boynton, Hon. Eleazer. Brooks, Frederick. Brooks, Henry. Brown, Mrs. Abby D. Brown, David H. Brown, Edward B. Brown, Mrs. Harriet W. Bullard, B. F. Burbank, Miss Ella L. Burbank, Miss Ida E. Buss, Herman L. Chandler, Dr. N. F. Chany, Miss A. Clara. Chipman, Miss Bessie. Clark, Mrs. Annie G. Clark, Miss Mary S. Clark, Miss Sarah L. Cleaves, Dr. James E. Cleaves, Mrs. Emmie N. Coffin, Freeman C. Converse, M. M. Cordis, Mrs. Adelaide E. Craig, Wm. C. Crockett, George W. Crockett, Mrs. Katherine M. Croudis, George A. Croudis, Mrs. Mabel H. Cushing, Samuel. Cushing, Mrs. Samuel. Cushing, Walter F. Cushing, Walter H. Cushing, Mr
railroad, and one each at North and Grove streets, where those streets pass over said railroad. Mention should be made of those bridges that once existed in our streets over the Middlesex canal. There was one over the branch canal at Mystic avenue near Swan street, and one each over the main canal at Main street near Summer street, at Winthrop street near West street, at North street at its junction with West, Cotting, and Auburn streets, and at High street at its junction with Boston avenue. The abutments of the bridge over the canal, where crossed by the Boston & Lowell Railroad, may still be seen near the Chemical Works, on Boston avenue in the city of Somerville. Members. Number previously reported, 226. Begien, Henry M. Brown, George E. Bruce, Mrs. F. P. Buss, Charles B. Coburn, Charles F. Fuller, G. S. T. Hollis, Mrs. Mary P. Kennedy, Dr. J. S. Leavitt, Harry B. Montague, Mrs. Hattie B. Start, Mrs. Philena C. Sturtevant, James S.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4., Medford Historical Society. (search)
Shepherd. Life Members.Brooks, Peter C. Brown, David H. Brown, Mrs. Abby D. Brown, Mrs. Harriet W. Brown, Edward D. Brown, George E. Bruce, Mrs. F. P. Bullard, B. Frank. Burbank, Miss Ella L. Burbank, Miss Ida E. Buss, Charles B. Buss, Herman L. Chany, Miss A. Clara. Chandler, Dr. N. F. Chipman, Miss Bessie W. Clark, Miss Mary S. Clark, Miss Sarah L. Clark, Calvin. Cleaves, Dr. James E. Cleaves, Mrs. Emmie N. Coffin, Freeman C. Buss, Herman L. Chany, Miss A. Clara. Chandler, Dr. N. F. Chipman, Miss Bessie W. Clark, Miss Mary S. Clark, Miss Sarah L. Clark, Calvin. Cleaves, Dr. James E. Cleaves, Mrs. Emmie N. Coffin, Freeman C. Coburn, Charles F. Converse, M. M. Cordis, Mrs. Adelaide E. Craig, William C. Crockett, George W. Croudis, George A. Croudis, Mrs. Mabel H. Cushing, Walter H. Cushing, Walter F. Cushing, Mrs. Carrie E. Cushing, Samuel. Cushing, Mrs. Samuel. Dalrymple, Willard. Dalrymple, Mrs. Julia W. Dame, Lorin L. Dame, Mrs. Isabel A. Davenport, George E. Davenport, Miss Viola T. Davis, Miss E. A. Dean, John Ward. Dean, Mrs. Lydia E. Delano, George
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Women of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony. (search)
was also Boston born and bred, had real success in Boston; but Boston failed to recognize it; transplanted to Newport, ever famed for its generous spirit, he not only gained success, but held it to the last, giving credit not only to the Franklin name, but to a generous and liberty-loving plantation. Comment and contrast. A high school graduate of ‘73 tells in a recent Mercury of his classmates, and gives a glimpse of fifty years ago. Eight of the eighteen still live, six in Medford. Mr. Buss' story suggests our headline, as he tells of that school in part of present Centre schoolhouse, a teaching staff of three, with occasional music teacher. While Medford's population has increased seven times, the high school teachers are now twenty times and its graduates over thirteen times as many. Then the two steam railroads gave good service to Boston, but there was no public conveyance within and to adjacent towns. South Medford was mainly brickyards and trotting park, East Me