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... appearance at court fearing he was about to absquatulate . - N . Y. Herald , 1847 . A railroad station - master at Oakdale has absquatulated with funds belonging to the railroad and various individuals . - N . Y. Tribune . Hope's ...
... appearance at court fearing he was about to absquatulate . - N . Y. Herald , 1847 . A railroad station - master at Oakdale has absquatulated with funds belonging to the railroad and various individuals . - N . Y. Tribune . Hope's ...
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... appearance , we are on the eve of a bloody contest , if not a revolution . What will be the consequence ? One or the other party must back out , or no one can tell what will be the result . — National Intelligencer . ' T would save some ...
... appearance , we are on the eve of a bloody contest , if not a revolution . What will be the consequence ? One or the other party must back out , or no one can tell what will be the result . — National Intelligencer . ' T would save some ...
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... appearance of going in a different direction ; and , figuratively , to deceive a person by putting him on the wrong track . BLIZZARD . A poser . This word is not known in the Eastern States . A gentlemen at dinner asked me for a toast ...
... appearance of going in a different direction ; and , figuratively , to deceive a person by putting him on the wrong track . BLIZZARD . A poser . This word is not known in the Eastern States . A gentlemen at dinner asked me for a toast ...
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... appearance and taste . BLUE - BOOK . A printed book containing the names of all the persons holding office under the government of the United States , with their place of birth , amount of salary , etc. It answers to the Red - Book of ...
... appearance and taste . BLUE - BOOK . A printed book containing the names of all the persons holding office under the government of the United States , with their place of birth , amount of salary , etc. It answers to the Red - Book of ...
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... appearance it resembles the Orchard grass of the North . CRACKER . 1. A little paper cylinder filled with powder , imported from China ; called also a Fire - cracker . It receives its name from the noise it produces in exploding . In ...
... appearance it resembles the Orchard grass of the North . CRACKER . 1. A little paper cylinder filled with powder , imported from China ; called also a Fire - cracker . It receives its name from the noise it produces in exploding . In ...
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Page 276 - 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.
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Page 447 - But it suddenly ceased some time before day ; and as they had no communication with any of the enemy's ships, they did not know whether the fort had surrendered, or the attack upon it been abandoned.
Page 25 - Then fill to-night, with hearts as light, To loves as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
Page 448 - O 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 rockets...
Page 68 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 295 - 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...
Page 280 - ... and richness, and power, and blessing; that they had apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists ; the same order, the same priesthood, the same ordinances, gifts, powers, and blessing, as was enjoyed on the eastern continent ; that the people were cut off...
Page 280 - ... enjoyed on the eastern continent ; that the people were cut off" in consequence of their transgressions; that the last of their prophets who existed among them was commanded to write an abridgment of their prophecies, history...
Page 413 - Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye-fields and wheat-fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the production of slaves, and Boston and New York become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men.