Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington will be among the missing , when they learn the President's decision . - New York Herald . ✓ AMONG , for between . This word is often used when reference is made only ...
... Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington will be among the missing , when they learn the President's decision . - New York Herald . ✓ AMONG , for between . This word is often used when reference is made only ...
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... Human Nature . ARISTOCRATIC . Strangely misapplied in those parts of the country where the population is not dense . The city , in the surrounding country towns , is deemed " aristocratic . " The people in the villages consider the ...
... Human Nature . ARISTOCRATIC . Strangely misapplied in those parts of the country where the population is not dense . The city , in the surrounding country towns , is deemed " aristocratic . " The people in the villages consider the ...
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... the wrong tree . If you think to run a rig on me , you have made a mistake in the child , and barked up the wrong tree.-S. Slick , Human Nature , p . 124 . When people try to hunt [ office ] for themselves 22 BAR - BAR.
... the wrong tree . If you think to run a rig on me , you have made a mistake in the child , and barked up the wrong tree.-S. Slick , Human Nature , p . 124 . When people try to hunt [ office ] for themselves 22 BAR - BAR.
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... Human Nature , p . 276 . A couple of students of Williams College went over to North Adams on a bender . This would have been a serious matter under the best of circumstances , but each returned with " a brick in his hat , " etc ...
... Human Nature , p . 276 . A couple of students of Williams College went over to North Adams on a bender . This would have been a serious matter under the best of circumstances , but each returned with " a brick in his hat , " etc ...
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... human tongue ; Prepare , my muse , for a heroic tussle ! Let every nerve with energy be strung ! The Bustle , a Philos . Poem . Mr. Saxe , in his poem on " Progress , " says that Imperial Fashion decides the gravest questions which ...
... human tongue ; Prepare , my muse , for a heroic tussle ! Let every nerve with energy be strung ! The Bustle , a Philos . Poem . Mr. Saxe , in his poem on " Progress , " says that Imperial Fashion decides the gravest questions which ...
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Abenaki ain't Allspice American Balt banks boys called colloquial common corruption Democratic denote dialects dictionaries dollars Dow's Sermons Dutch Eastford English English language expression fish give grass ground heard horse Human Nature Indian corn Jones's Courtship Kentucky land language Letter Loco-foco maize Margaret means Menhaden Mexico Mississippi Mountains N. Y. Spirit N. Y. Tribune negro never North Northern one's origin party peculiar person phrase Pickering plant political popular name prairies Pron pronunciation Providence Journal provincial in England Rhode Island river Sam Slick says sense Slick in England sometimes South South Carolina Southern Sketches Spanish real species Squatter tell term applied Texas thing town tree United Virginia vulgar Washington Webster West West Indies Western Whig Widow Bedott Papers wood Worcester word writers Yankee York York Tribune