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... prairie and frontier life as well as those com- mon to Texas , New 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 ...
... prairie and frontier life as well as those com- mon to Texas , New 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 ...
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... prairie , preëmption , reservation , salt lick , savan- nah , snag , sawyer , squatter , etc. , are necessary additions to the language . The metaphorical and other odd expressions used first at the West , and afterwards in other parts ...
... prairie , preëmption , reservation , salt lick , savan- nah , snag , sawyer , squatter , etc. , are necessary additions to the language . The metaphorical and other odd expressions used first at the West , and afterwards in other parts ...
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... prairie flower . — Robb , Squatter Life . - If you can only get Kit rid of them little failings [ blindness and deafness ] , you'll find him all sorts of a horse . - Traits of Amer . Humor . ALL - TO - PIECES . 1. Excessively ; as " I ...
... prairie flower . — Robb , Squatter Life . - If you can only get Kit rid of them little failings [ blindness and deafness ] , you'll find him all sorts of a horse . - Traits of Amer . Humor . ALL - TO - PIECES . 1. Excessively ; as " I ...
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... prairies . Wolves are a constant annoyance on the plains , creeping to the camp fires , and gnawing the saddles and apishamores . — Ruxton , Far West . APPELLATE . Relating to appeals . In all cases affecting ambassadors , etc. , the ...
... prairies . Wolves are a constant annoyance on the plains , creeping to the camp fires , and gnawing the saddles and apishamores . — Ruxton , Far West . APPELLATE . Relating to appeals . In all cases affecting ambassadors , etc. , the ...
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... prairies . ARROW HEAD . ( Sagittaria variabilis . ) A common and very variable aquatic plant , so called from the shape of its leaf . ARROW WOOD . ( Viburnum dentatum . ) It is from the long and straight stems of this shrub that the ...
... prairies . ARROW HEAD . ( Sagittaria variabilis . ) A common and very variable aquatic plant , so called from the shape of its leaf . ARROW WOOD . ( Viburnum dentatum . ) It is from the long and straight stems of this shrub that the ...
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