Kearney's division made a gallant charge, in this movement, Sickles' Excelsior Brigade once more evidencing that splendid steadiness with the bayonet which had been so conspicuous at Williamsburgh and Fair Oaks.
A stream of men in dingy French blue were seen to leap forward, and it was known that the Excelsior boys were making a dash at the battery.
Excelsior Geyser is in a continual state of anarchy, without law, government or regulation.
The Excelsior Geyser is the most conspicuous feature of the Midway Basin, a collection of hot springs and pools.
But more often she came forward to you from the rear of the store, with bits of excelsior clinging to her black sateen apron.
The packing-room was always littered with straw and excelsior dug from hogsheads and great crates.
Yet it did not come easy to Joe to buckle down to the hard and exacting work of a college course, as compared to the rather easy methods in vogue at Excelsior Hall.
Somewhat Excelsior Hall it was, but bigger--broader.
Excelsior opens four days from now, but I'm not going to drill in with the first bunch.
All that Spring he had pitched fine games at Excelsior Hall, but, during the Summer vacation, at the close of the boarding school, he had gone a bit stale.
The course at Excelsior Hall was four years, but it was found that at the end of the third Joe was able to take the Yale entrance examinations, which he had done successfully.
I'm sure it's baseball that made him want to stay on at Excelsior Hall.
He's got lots of speed, and if he had the benefit of the coaching we got at Excelsior Hall he'd make a dandy.
Three years passed, all too quickly, at Excelsior Hall, with Joe doing the twirling for the school nine at all the big games.
The exercises were no novelty to him, but it was very different from those at Excelsior Hall, and later the campus seemed to be fairly alive with the students.
Say, I'd like to know what sort of a showing we'd have made at Excelsior Hall if it hadn't been for your pitching!
He did not know a soul there, and he wished with all his heart that Tom Davis could have gone with him, as he had to Excelsior Hall.
When I'm through at Excelsior Hall he's going to take me into business with him.
Wrap each jar withexcelsior or paper before putting it in its proper section.
Do not use hay, old clothes, newspapers or excelsior for a false bottom; they are unsatisfactory because they do not allow proper circulation of water.
He read aloud: "DEAR JO: Leaving Top Hill forever by the Excelsior Route.
That was what she meant in the note she left for me when she said she was going by the Excelsior route.
Obviously, the manager of the Excelsior had sent Duckworth a notice that Dr.
Half the key had been in his possession for a year, jealousy guarded against loss during all the time he had been on Lobon; the other half had been kept by the manager of the Excelsior Apartments.
The Excelsior is said to cook very white and mealy; form nearly round, eyes prominent.
The Excelsior is said, by those interested in its sale, to be very productive, and of most excellent quality, retaining its superior flavor all the year round.
It was gay--gayer than the Hotel Excelsior at Rome!
She tried to imagine her mother dancing with young men at the Hotel Excelsior and she could not.
Most of the apples were wrapped first in tissue and then in oiled paper and firmly packed in barrels well lined with corrugated paper, with excelsior cushions in each end.
Gold medal Canned fruit and vegetables in tin and glass Excelsior Springs Co.
He brought Cis back into the little room, seated her on her narrow bed, with her slender shoulders leaned against the excelsior pillow which once she had prized.
Raywood Firth, who has worked through Longfellow's excelsior gamut rapidly and successfully.
The second one was called "Excelsior of Taynton," which was in the list I read previously.
Having made special arrangements with the manufacturers we are enabled to offer the celebrated =Excelsior Printing-press Outfits= as premiums for new subscriptions.
The excelsior made quite a blaze and a lot of smoke, and everybody in the jail was badly frightened for a while.
The wind blew a curtain against a lamp and the burning curtain fell into someexcelsior in a box of new dishes.
A pad of excelsiorshould be placed under it to avoid breaking the glass jar when it drops.
Lay paper (preferably paraffined) over top of battery to keep it clean, then pack tightly with excelsior sides and ends.
Remove allexcelsior and the other packing material from the top of the cells.
Unpacking Remove the boards from the tops of the shipping crates and the excelsior which is above the cells.
At the present time Excelsior Geyser is a boiling lake, where the steam often prevents one from getting a good view of it.
Its arrival was therefore looked forward to with great expectancy when the hotel was finished and occupied by the combined Excelsior companies.
The high-toned, close corporation of Excelsior may consider this a fair allegory of California; WE should say it looks mighty like a prophetic forecast of a hard winter on Sycamore Creek and scarcity of provisions.
The members of the Excelsior Company were loud in its praises except the executive committee, whose coolness was looked upon by the others as an affectation of superiority.
The trail of the loose excelsior led around the base of the cliff and to a much larger opening than the first they had discovered.
It was some loose excelsior and he pointed it out to his chums.
Carrying the bags and the excelsior they had brought along, the cadets retreated, leaving Fred to enter the school building alone.
We found some whisps of excelsior on the road, and some footprints, but not enough to follow to the end.
Yes, and each of 'em had a couple of white bags over his shoulder, stuffed with excelsior and other things.
Prepared and delivered a lecture before the Excelsior Society on the Interrelation between Mind and Body, and their Mutual Dependence.
Had a very interesting meeting in the Excelsior Society.
Eve, met with the Excelsior Society and entered upon the duties of secretary.
And by that time Heppie had the crate in the wood-box, and the excelsior was a black and smoking mass at the kitchen end of the grounds.
In the matter of curiosity, Miss Letitia was truly feminine; great handfuls of excelsior she dragged out herself, and heaped on Heppie's blue apron, stretched out on the floor.
Pheasants' eggs for shipping should be most carefully packed in cotton, hay, or excelsior to insure safety from jar.
Fill the feeding pan with excelsior first, then sirup, and place it in the super.
A hen cannot be happy withexcelsior twisted round her toes and an unhappy hen is an unproductive hen.
He added that he had learned since at Wild Cat Station that Harkins had fled the country, that a suit had been commenced by the Excelsior Ditch Company, and that all available property of Harkins had been seized by the sheriff.
We leave the package of greenbacks which we took from Colonel Clinch in the Sierra coach, but which was first stolen by Harkins from forty-four shareholders of the Excelsior Ditch.
Well," said Zenobia, "I reckon you all know Ned Falkner and theExcelsior Ditch?
I shall hand it over to the Excelsior Company," said the Colonel, "but I shall inform Ned of what I have done.
Whatever the message was, six months later it brought Edward Falkner, the reestablished superintendent of the Excelsior Ditch, to Eagle's Court.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excelsior" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
