The noise was so loud that she woke up.

vLafayette's Carriage, flaring with lights, rolls this moment… through the inner Arch of the Carrousel, — where a Lady shaded in broad gypsy-hat, ... stands aside to let it pass, and has even the whim to touch a spoke of it with her badine, — light little magic rod which she calls badine, such as the Beautiful then wore}}

Approximately eighty-five percent of the iron mined in the United States in recent decades has come from the ore ranges adjoining the upper Lakes, and most of all from the fabulous Mesabi Range, some fifty miles northwest of Duluth, now steam-shovelled deep in what was recently a frontier wilderness of snow, lakes and northern forests, […]

However, I have several "new' hibiscus plants (3 years old) of one variety with peach blossoms which are having a problem blooming. All are in bud but many (not all) of the buds drop off before opening. They are in the same environment as the other hibisci.