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... head . — Sam Slick . - I'm dying - I know I am ! My mouth tastes like a rusty cent . will charge an all - fired price to cure me . — Knickerbocker Mag . , 1845 . The doctor The first thing I know'd , my trowsers were plastered all over ...
... head . — Sam Slick . - I'm dying - I know I am ! My mouth tastes like a rusty cent . will charge an all - fired price to cure me . — Knickerbocker Mag . , 1845 . The doctor The first thing I know'd , my trowsers were plastered all over ...
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... head , it would have stood a better chance . - N . Y. Tribune , June 23 , 1862 . Anti - Federalist . " This word was formed about the year 1788 , to denote a person of the political party that opposed the adoption of the Constitution of ...
... head , it would have stood a better chance . - N . Y. Tribune , June 23 , 1862 . Anti - Federalist . " This word was formed about the year 1788 , to denote a person of the political party that opposed the adoption of the Constitution of ...
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... 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 Indians between ...
... 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 Indians between ...
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... in the " Westminster Review " supposes the word to be a corruption of the French barbe - à - queue , i . e . from snout to tail . Comp . cap - à - pié , from head to foot . Oldfield , with more than harpy throat endued , Cries BAN - BAR 29.
... in the " Westminster Review " supposes the word to be a corruption of the French barbe - à - queue , i . e . from snout to tail . Comp . cap - à - pié , from head to foot . Oldfield , with more than harpy throat endued , Cries BAN - BAR 29.
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... head , But full as wise as Democrats , Burned down his barn to kill the rats . " Pills , Poetical , Political , and Philosophical , and by Peter Pepper Box , Phila . , 1809 . Barrack . ( From the Haitian bajaraque , a large house ...
... head , But full as wise as Democrats , Burned down his barn to kill the rats . " Pills , Poetical , Political , and Philosophical , and by Peter Pepper Box , Phila . , 1809 . Barrack . ( From the Haitian bajaraque , a large house ...
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Page 347 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 368 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its...
Page 313 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 353 - In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.
Page 597 - OH ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, 'What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars' through the perilous fight, ' O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming ; And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there...
Page 219 - Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone ; All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones...
Page 55 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see— Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And he rose with a sigh, And said, "Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor" — And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Page 539 - It is the failure to apprehend this great truth that induces so many unsuccessful attempts at final compromise between the slave and free States, and it is the existence of this great fact that renders all such pretended compromises> when made, vain and ephemeral.
Page 231 - Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around ; When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground ? There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky ; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
Page 122 - In the scene that ensued I did not take a hand, But the floor it was strewed Like the leaves on the strand With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding, In the game "he did not understand.