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... wild state , but common in cultivation . - Gray . - BALSAM FIR . ( Abies balsamea . ) A slender tree growing in cold , damp woods and swamps , from New England to Pennsylvania and north- wards . The blisters under the bark furnish the ...
... wild state , but common in cultivation . - Gray . - BALSAM FIR . ( Abies balsamea . ) A slender tree growing in cold , damp woods and swamps , from New England to Pennsylvania and north- wards . The blisters under the bark furnish the ...
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... wild honey - bee makes its hive or nest . See Gum - tree . BEGGAR - TICKS . A species of Bidens whose seeds ( fruit ) adhere to the clothes . The term is also applied to a species of Desmodium whose pods break at the joints ; the latter ...
... wild honey - bee makes its hive or nest . See Gum - tree . BEGGAR - TICKS . A species of Bidens whose seeds ( fruit ) adhere to the clothes . The term is also applied to a species of Desmodium whose pods break at the joints ; the latter ...
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... wild Indian , whose principal article of dress is the blanket . BLATHER . The Irish pronunciation of bladder ; figuratively , idle , windy talk . Western . BLATHERSKITE . A blustering , noisy , talkative fellow . Though of Scotch origin ...
... wild Indian , whose principal article of dress is the blanket . BLATHER . The Irish pronunciation of bladder ; figuratively , idle , windy talk . Western . BLATHERSKITE . A blustering , noisy , talkative fellow . Though of Scotch origin ...
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... wild flowers near where sat an aged man , and said : -- " These flowers are beautiful , it is a treat for one from the city to gaze on them ! " " Flowers ? " replied the old man , with an air of bewilderment . be they ? " " Why , these ...
... wild flowers near where sat an aged man , and said : -- " These flowers are beautiful , it is a treat for one from the city to gaze on them ! " " Flowers ? " replied the old man , with an air of bewilderment . be they ? " " Why , these ...
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... wild rice of shallow rivers and marshes , where it becomes very fat . It is highly esteemed by epicures . Other popular names by which it is known in different parts of the country are Rice - bird , Rice - bunting , Reed - bird , Meadow ...
... wild rice of shallow rivers and marshes , where it becomes very fat . It is highly esteemed by epicures . Other popular names by which it is known in different parts of the country are Rice - bird , Rice - bunting , Reed - bird , Meadow ...
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Abenaki ain't Allspice American Balt banks boys called colloquial common corruption Democratic denote Dictionary dollars Dow's Sermons Dutch Eastford English 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 Mormons 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 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 tion town tree United Virginia vulgar Washington Webster West West Indies Western Whig Widow Bedott Papers wild wood Worcester word writers Yankee York York Tribune
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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.