Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English , containing words from the English writers previous to the nineteenth century , which are no longer in use , or are not used in the same sense , and words which are now used only in the ...
... Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English , containing words from the English writers previous to the nineteenth century , which are no longer in use , or are not used in the same sense , and words which are now used only in the ...
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Abenaki ain't Allspice American Balt banks boys called colloquial common corruption Democratic denote dictionaries dollars Dow's Sermons Dutch Eastford English English language expression fish give grass ground heard horse Human Nature Indian corn Jones's Courtship land language Letter Loco-foco maize Margaret means Menhaden Mexico Mississippi 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 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.
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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...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States Collections spéciales |
| Author | John Russell Bartlett |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1860 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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