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... 1859 , by JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Rhode Island . CAMBRIDGE : ALLEN AND FARNHAM , STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THE first edition of.
... 1859 , by JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Rhode Island . CAMBRIDGE : ALLEN AND FARNHAM , STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THE first edition of.
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... island ; to Professor GEO . C. SCHAEFFER of Washington , for many terms of nat- ural history , words relating to the arts , and Westernisms ; and to Dr. FRANCIS LIEBER , of Columbia College , New York , for many sound remarks , of which ...
... island ; to Professor GEO . C. SCHAEFFER of Washington , for many terms of nat- ural history , words relating to the arts , and Westernisms ; and to Dr. FRANCIS LIEBER , of Columbia College , New York , for many sound remarks , of which ...
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... Island , both colonial and recent , referring to measures , say , " All casks shall be gauged by the rule commonly called ' gauging by Gunter . ' " Hence any thing correctly and properly done is said to be " according to Gunter . " Mr ...
... Island , both colonial and recent , referring to measures , say , " All casks shall be gauged by the rule commonly called ' gauging by Gunter . ' " Hence any thing correctly and properly done is said to be " according to Gunter . " Mr ...
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... Islands . From being cultivated in Jamaica it is often called Ja- maica Pepper . 2. The " sweet - scented shrub " ( Calycanthus floridus ) is also known as Carolina Allspice , the bark and wood having a somewhat spicy flavor . ALMIGHTY ...
... Islands . From being cultivated in Jamaica it is often called Ja- maica Pepper . 2. The " sweet - scented shrub " ( Calycanthus floridus ) is also known as Carolina Allspice , the bark and wood having a somewhat spicy flavor . ALMIGHTY ...
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... Island Col. Records , 1659 . As , for that , which ; as " nobody as I ever heard on . " This vulgarism is confined to the illiterate . It is noticed in the Craven and Hereford- shire Glossaries . AS GOOD AS . In the phrase , I'd as ...
... Island Col. Records , 1659 . As , for that , which ; as " nobody as I ever heard on . " This vulgarism is confined to the illiterate . It is noticed in the Craven and Hereford- shire Glossaries . AS GOOD AS . In the phrase , I'd as ...
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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