Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... of the States and principal cities , accompanied by their vulgar or nicknames . PROVIDENCE , R. I. , November , 1877 . J. R. B. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THE first edition of viii PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION .
... of the States and principal cities , accompanied by their vulgar or nicknames . PROVIDENCE , R. I. , November , 1877 . J. R. B. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THE first edition of viii PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION .
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... vulgar , —all the words , whatever be their origin , which are used in familiar conversation , and but seldom employed in composition , all the perversions of language , and abuses of words into which people , in certain sections of the ...
... vulgar , —all the words , whatever be their origin , which are used in familiar conversation , and but seldom employed in composition , all the perversions of language , and abuses of words into which people , in certain sections of the ...
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... vulgar . But , notwithstanding all this , the common speech often enters largely into composition , and in some instances constitutes the chief excellence of a writer . In dramatic composition , the col- loquial language predominates ...
... vulgar . But , notwithstanding all this , the common speech often enters largely into composition , and in some instances constitutes the chief excellence of a writer . In dramatic composition , the col- loquial language predominates ...
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... some glaring errors in the vulgar speech . There are peculiarities also to be observed in the lite- rary language of the Bostonians . The great extent to which the scholars of New England have carried the study of INTRODUCTION . xxxvii.
... some glaring errors in the vulgar speech . There are peculiarities also to be observed in the lite- rary language of the Bostonians . The great extent to which the scholars of New England have carried the study of INTRODUCTION . xxxvii.
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... vulgar speakers ; as , " I have got wet bad ; " See that you do it good ; " " He'll take cold sure . " On the other hand , it seems owing to the teachings of some priggish pedagogue , who had learned that " adverbs qualify verbs , " and ...
... vulgar speakers ; as , " I have got wet bad ; " See that you do it good ; " " He'll take cold sure . " On the other hand , it seems owing to the teachings of some priggish pedagogue , who had learned that " adverbs qualify verbs , " and ...
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ain't American banks blue-fish Boston boys California called Canada Carolina colloquial common Connecticut corn corruption Democratic Dictionary dollars Dow's Sermons Dutch England English expression fish give ground heard Hist horse Indian land language Letter maize Major Jones's Courtship Mark Twain Massachusetts means Menhaden Mexico Mountains N. Y. Herald N. Y. Spirit N. Y. Tribune Negro never North one's origin party peculiar person phrase Pickering plant political popular name prairies Pron Providence Journal Rhode Island river Rocky Mountains Sam Slick says slang slaves Slick in England sometimes Song South South Carolina Southern Span speaking species Squatter term applied Texas thing town tree United Virginia vulgar Wall Street Washington Webster West Western Whig whiskey Widow Bedott Papers wood Worcester word writers Yankee York York Tribune
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Page 393 - 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 403 - 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 xxi - 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 643 - 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 643 - 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 91 - 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 641 - 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 643 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd 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' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our Flag was still there!
Page 394 - that the powers have an undoubted right to take a hostile attitude in regard to those states in which the overthrow of the government may operate as an example.
Page 398 - ... 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...