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... wood from two to four feet in length riven from blocks , and differing only in size from shingles . All sawed stuff , which at the North is called boards , is here called plank . BOATABLE . - Navigable for boats or small river - craft ...
... wood from two to four feet in length riven from blocks , and differing only in size from shingles . All sawed stuff , which at the North is called boards , is here called plank . BOATABLE . - Navigable for boats or small river - craft ...
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... WOODS . To say that one was not born in the woods to be scared by an owl , means that he is too much used to danger or threats to be easily frightened . - I just puts my finger to my nose , and winks , as much as to say , " I ain't such ...
... WOODS . To say that one was not born in the woods to be scared by an owl , means that he is too much used to danger or threats to be easily frightened . - I just puts my finger to my nose , and winks , as much as to say , " I ain't such ...
Page 48
... wood or timber that is brittle . In New York it is often heard in the markets , applied to vegetables . Ex . " These radishes are brash , " i . e . brittle . In many parts of England , twigs are called brash . BRAVE . An Indian warrior ...
... wood or timber that is brittle . In New York it is often heard in the markets , applied to vegetables . Ex . " These radishes are brash , " i . e . brittle . In many parts of England , twigs are called brash . BRAVE . An Indian warrior ...
Page 51
... wood is sawn for fuel . In New England it is called a Saw - horse . BUCK . A " buck nigger " is a term often vulgarly applied to a negro man . Western . So in London , a So in London , a " buck sweep , " among the populace . To BUCK ...
... wood is sawn for fuel . In New England it is called a Saw - horse . BUCK . A " buck nigger " is a term often vulgarly applied to a negro man . Western . So in London , a So in London , a " buck sweep , " among the populace . To BUCK ...
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... wood was accessible . It makes no smoke , gives out a great heat , and lasts longer than wood . • BUFFALO CLOVER . ( Trifolium reflexum and stoloniferum . ) The Western species of clover . BUFFALO GRASS . ( Sesleria dactyloides . ) A ...
... wood was accessible . It makes no smoke , gives out a great heat , and lasts longer than wood . • BUFFALO CLOVER . ( Trifolium reflexum and stoloniferum . ) The Western species of clover . BUFFALO GRASS . ( Sesleria dactyloides . ) A ...
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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.