Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United StatesLittle, Brown,, 1859 - 524 oldal |
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iv. oldal
... one's shins , bobtail , bogtrotter , bolt - upright , boozy , bo - peep , to bore , born days , bran new , brown ... one's acquaintance , cut and run , cut a dash , dabster , dead alive , dawdle , demijohn , duds , Dick's hatband , dilly ...
... one's shins , bobtail , bogtrotter , bolt - upright , boozy , bo - peep , to bore , born days , bran new , brown ... one's acquaintance , cut and run , cut a dash , dabster , dead alive , dawdle , demijohn , duds , Dick's hatband , dilly ...
xxxiii. oldal
... ONE'S BEND . Out of one's power . A common expression in the Western States . Above one's huckleberry is a vulgarism of the same signification . I shall not attempt to describe the curiosities at Peale's Museum ; it is above my bend ...
... ONE'S BEND . Out of one's power . A common expression in the Western States . Above one's huckleberry is a vulgarism of the same signification . I shall not attempt to describe the curiosities at Peale's Museum ; it is above my bend ...
xxxiii. oldal
... one's hat ajee . " ALAMO . ( Span . ) See Cotton - wood . ALBANY BEEF . Sturgeon ; so called because it abounds in the Hudson River , and is much eaten in the city of Albany . ALBANY HEMP . ( Urtica canadensis . ) Canada nettle 4 ADO - ALB.
... one's hat ajee . " ALAMO . ( Span . ) See Cotton - wood . ALBANY BEEF . Sturgeon ; so called because it abounds in the Hudson River , and is much eaten in the city of Albany . ALBANY HEMP . ( Urtica canadensis . ) Canada nettle 4 ADO - ALB.
9. oldal
... one's self . If a person inquires if you are at home , the servant is directed to say , No , if you don't want to be seen , and choose to be among the missing . — S. Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . - The crowd of office ...
... one's self . If a person inquires if you are at home , the servant is directed to say , No , if you don't want to be seen , and choose to be among the missing . — S. Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . - The crowd of office ...
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... one's own words ; as , " I asked Jenkins , before witnesses , if he had called me a cheat ; and he backed right down . " BACK - HOUSE . A necessary house , privy ; so called from its position . In some parts of England it is called the ...
... one's own words ; as , " I asked Jenkins , before witnesses , if he had called me a cheat ; and he backed right down . " BACK - HOUSE . A necessary house , privy ; so called from its position . In some parts of England it is called the ...
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276. oldal - 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.
446. oldal - 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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283. oldal - 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.
448. oldal - 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...
25. oldal - 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.
270. oldal - 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.
136. oldal - That if the President of the United States shall in his judgment and discretion deem it most advisable, instead of proceeding to submit the foregoing resolution to the Republic of Texas, as an overture on the part of the United States for admission, to negotiate with that Republic; then...
326. oldal - A Platform of Church Discipline gathered out of the word of God: and agreed upon by the Elders; and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England to be presented to the Churches and General! Court for their consideration and acceptance, in the Lord.