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... hands for the printer , now ten years , I have been more or less occupied in its preparation . Nearly three years of this period I spent in the interior of the country , in the service of the United States as Commissioner on the Mexican ...
... hands for the printer , now ten years , I have been more or less occupied in its preparation . Nearly three years of this period I spent in the interior of the country , in the service of the United States as Commissioner on the Mexican ...
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... hands and heads . None but a native of New Eng- land , educated on her soil , and who has mingled with all classes of society , has the requisite familiarity with the words and phrases peculiar to her people . So with the Western and ...
... hands and heads . None but a native of New Eng- land , educated on her soil , and who has mingled with all classes of society , has the requisite familiarity with the words and phrases peculiar to her people . So with the Western and ...
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... hand it seems owing to the teachings of some priggish pedagogue , who had learned that " adverbs qualify verbs , " and knew no- thing beyond it , that adverbs are now often employed where idiomatic usage requires an adjective ; as , " I ...
... hand it seems owing to the teachings of some priggish pedagogue , who had learned that " adverbs qualify verbs , " and knew no- thing beyond it , that adverbs are now often employed where idiomatic usage requires an adjective ; as , " I ...
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... hand in plucking it . — P. T. Barnum . ACROSS LOTS . By short cuts , in the quickest manner . I swore in Nauvoo , when my enemies were looking me in the face , that I would send them to hell across lots if they meddled with me ...
... hand in plucking it . — P. T. Barnum . ACROSS LOTS . By short cuts , in the quickest manner . I swore in Nauvoo , when my enemies were looking me in the face , that I would send them to hell across lots if they meddled with me ...
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... HAND . A seaman's phrase . To go to work ; to assist ; to make haste . BEAR STATE . A name by which the State of Arkansas is known at the West . I once asked a Western man if Arkansas abounded in bears , that it should be designated as ...
... HAND . A seaman's phrase . To go to work ; to assist ; to make haste . BEAR STATE . A name by which the State of Arkansas is known at the West . I once asked a Western man if Arkansas abounded in bears , that it should be designated 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