Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... half had been put in type , the occurrence of some terms common in political language , the exact meaning of which was not clear , led me to apply to my friend JOHN INMAN , Esq . , editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser , for aid ...
... half had been put in type , the occurrence of some terms common in political language , the exact meaning of which was not clear , led me to apply to my friend JOHN INMAN , Esq . , editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser , for aid ...
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... half a crown , An treat me wud some beer , If I wud make it up wud him , An let un goo off clear . Tom Cladpole's Journey to Lunnun . ALLSPICE . 1. The aromatic berry of the Eugenia pimenta , the Allspice Pimento or Bayberry Tree , a ...
... half a crown , An treat me wud some beer , If I wud make it up wud him , An let un goo off clear . Tom Cladpole's Journey to Lunnun . ALLSPICE . 1. The aromatic berry of the Eugenia pimenta , the Allspice Pimento or Bayberry Tree , a ...
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... half the New - Yorkers , is an awful custom . - Major Downing , May - Day in New York . 2. Very great , excessive . This sense of the word is peculiar to the West . Pot - pie is the favorite dish , and woodsmen , sharp set , are awful ...
... half the New - Yorkers , is an awful custom . - Major Downing , May - Day in New York . 2. Very great , excessive . This sense of the word is peculiar to the West . Pot - pie is the favorite dish , and woodsmen , sharp set , are awful ...
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... half civilized Indians . Western . BLANKET COAT . A coat made from a blanket , common in the West , and often seen with the black stripe of the border of the original blanket crossing various parts of the garment . Such a coat 34 BLA - BLA.
... half civilized Indians . Western . BLANKET COAT . A coat made from a blanket , common in the West , and often seen with the black stripe of the border of the original blanket crossing various parts of the garment . Such a coat 34 BLA - BLA.
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... Half surplice cloake , half Priest , half Puritan . Made up of all these halfes , hee cannot pass For any thing entirely but an ass . In the latter sense it is used particularly in politics . The bluest description of old Van Rensselaer ...
... Half surplice cloake , half Priest , half Puritan . Made up of all these halfes , hee cannot pass For any thing entirely but an ass . In the latter sense it is used particularly in politics . The bluest description of old Van Rensselaer ...
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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 Glossary 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. 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 speech Squatter tell term applied Texas thing 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.
Page 446 - Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page xvi - Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Reign of Edward I. 2 vols, 8vo, containing upwards of 1,000 pages, closely printed In double columns, cloth, a new and cheaper edition.
Page 283 - 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 448 - 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 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 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 7 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Page 270 - Knipp took us all in. and brought to us Nelly, a most pretty woman, who acted the great part of 'Coelia' to-day very fine, and did it pretty well; I kissed her. and so did my wife, and a mighty pretty soul she is.