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... kind . Cant words , except such as are in gen- eral use , the terms used at gaming - houses , purely technical words , and those only known to certain trades , obscene and blasphemous words , have been discarded . 2 For a better ...
... kind . Cant words , except such as are in gen- eral use , the terms used at gaming - houses , purely technical words , and those only known to certain trades , obscene and blasphemous words , have been discarded . 2 For a better ...
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... kind and with equal success . In addition to Aristophanes and Plautus among the ancients , Cervantes may be mentioned as an example in Spain , and the writings of Rabelais and Molière in France . The colloquial dia- lect is generally ...
... kind and with equal success . In addition to Aristophanes and Plautus among the ancients , Cervantes may be mentioned as an example in Spain , and the writings of Rabelais and Molière in France . The colloquial dia- lect is generally ...
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... kind is that of the late Hon . John Pick- ering . He began with an article in the " Memoirs of the American Aca- demy of Arts and Sciences , " Boston . This was soon after enlarged and published in a separated volume entitled " A ...
... kind is that of the late Hon . John Pick- ering . He began with an article in the " Memoirs of the American Aca- demy of Arts and Sciences , " Boston . This was soon after enlarged and published in a separated volume entitled " A ...
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... kind of brandy distilled from red wine , in Mexico and Cuba . AGUR - FORTY . Aqua - fortis , vulgarly so called at the South - west . - - The doctors fed me on lodlum tea and epecac , washed down with myrtle tea ' t wan't of no manner ...
... kind of brandy distilled from red wine , in Mexico and Cuba . AGUR - FORTY . Aqua - fortis , vulgarly so called at the South - west . - - The doctors fed me on lodlum tea and epecac , washed down with myrtle tea ' t wan't of no manner ...
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... kind , abounding in the waters of New England . The name appears to be an Indian one , though it is somewhat changed , as ap- pears by the earliest account we have of it . In former times , the Indians made use of these fish to manure ...
... kind , abounding in the waters of New England . The name appears to be an Indian one , though it is somewhat changed , as ap- pears by the earliest account we have of it . In former times , the Indians made use of these fish to manure ...
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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