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... Mexico , and California . Most of these have come from the Spanish , and are now fairly engrafted on our language . The other alterations and improvements made in this edition , consist in the addition of a very large number of words ...
... Mexico , and California . Most of these have come from the Spanish , and are now fairly engrafted on our language . The other alterations and improvements made in this edition , consist in the addition of a very large number of words ...
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... Mexico and the Spanish main , were the means of introducing a few Spanish words . Since the annexation of Texas , New Mexico , and California , our vocabulary has received numerous additions from this source . These consist of geograph ...
... Mexico and the Spanish main , were the means of introducing a few Spanish words . Since the annexation of Texas , New Mexico , and California , our vocabulary has received numerous additions from this source . These consist of geograph ...
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... Mexico , Chili , Peru , Delhi , Canton , Cairo , Egypt , China , Cuba . Distinguished men in English history , as Milton , Addison , Clarendon , Dryden , Scott , Byron , Chesterfield , Hume , Marlborough , Junius , have towns christened ...
... Mexico , Chili , Peru , Delhi , Canton , Cairo , Egypt , China , Cuba . Distinguished men in English history , as Milton , Addison , Clarendon , Dryden , Scott , Byron , Chesterfield , Hume , Marlborough , Junius , have towns christened ...
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... Mexico are called Acequias ; the larger or principal one , which supplies the smaller , is called the Acequia Madre , or main ditch . The word is sometimes spelt azequia or zequia . As the mustang sprang over the zequia , the flowing ...
... Mexico are called Acequias ; the larger or principal one , which supplies the smaller , is called the Acequia Madre , or main ditch . The word is sometimes spelt azequia or zequia . As the mustang sprang over the zequia , the flowing ...
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... Mexico , etc. The large and economical adobe brick , hardened in the sun and without fire , super- sedes other materials for walls and fences in this dry atmosphere [ that of the great Plains ] , and , as in Syria and Egypt , resists ...
... Mexico , etc. The large and economical adobe brick , hardened in the sun and without fire , super- sedes other materials for walls and fences in this dry atmosphere [ that of the great Plains ] , and , as in Syria and Egypt , resists ...
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