Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... writer in " Household Words " ( No. 183 ) has gone so far as to remark that a person " shall not read one single parlia ... writers have had the courage to acknowledge the importance of the slang element in our language , and to write in ...
... writer in " Household Words " ( No. 183 ) has gone so far as to remark that a person " shall not read one single parlia ... writers have had the courage to acknowledge the importance of the slang element in our language , and to write in ...
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... writers this peculiar idiom been so much employed as by Bret and Mark Twain . In speaking of the language of the mining regions , the latter says : " The slang of Nevada is the richest and most infinitely varied and copious that ever ...
... writers this peculiar idiom been so much employed as by Bret and Mark Twain . In speaking of the language of the mining regions , the latter says : " The slang of Nevada is the richest and most infinitely varied and copious that ever ...
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... writers . In these several works , the drolleries and quaint sayings of the West are admir- ably incorporated into tales of the settlers , their manners and customs , vivid descriptions of Western scenery , political and dramatic scenes ...
... writers . In these several works , the drolleries and quaint sayings of the West are admir- ably incorporated into tales of the settlers , their manners and customs , vivid descriptions of Western scenery , political and dramatic scenes ...
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... writer . In dramatic composition , the colloquial language predominates . In Shakespeare , we find every variety of diction of which the English language is susceptible , from the loftiest flights of the statesman and philosopher to the ...
... writer . In dramatic composition , the colloquial language predominates . In Shakespeare , we find every variety of diction of which the English language is susceptible , from the loftiest flights of the statesman and philosopher to the ...
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... writers on the subject that any are of recent origin . " In early times , " says Dr. Bosworth , " there was clearly a considerable dialectic variety in the writings of men residing in different provinces . The differences observable in ...
... writers on the subject that any are of recent origin . " In early times , " says Dr. Bosworth , " there was clearly a considerable dialectic variety in the writings of men residing in different provinces . The differences observable in ...
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ain't American banks blue-fish Boston boys California called Canada Carolina colloquial common Connecticut corn corruption Democratic dialects Dictionary dollars Dow's Sermons Dutch England English English language expression fish French 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 Sam Slick says slang slaves Slick in England sometimes Song South South Carolina Southern speaking species speech Squatter term applied Texas thing 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 389 - 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 645 - 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 493 - And, if a member don't agree with his peculiar whim, To lay for that same member for to " put a head" on him. Now nothing could be finer or more beautiful to see Than the first six months...
Page 347 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page xxv - 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 89 - 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 645 - 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 643 - 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 390 - 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 59 - When General Washington, after being appointed commander of the army of the revolutionary war, came to Massachusetts to organize it, and make preparations for the defence of the country, he found a great want of ammunition and other means necessary to meet the powerful foe he had to contend with, and great difficulty to obtain them. If attacked in such condition, the cause at once might be hopeless. On one occasion at that anxious period a consultation of the officers and others was had, when it...