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A Run Through the United States choose

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[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States I 96: A certain Mr. John Pease, a notorious horse-dealer, came forward with barnacles on nose.
at barnacles, n.
[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States I 157: They adroitly turned the tables upon their opponents by making Ohio buck-eye, hard cider, and log-huts.
at buckeye, n.2
[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States II 81: Now, I ‘calculate,’ you will be sufficiently sick of ‘what I said,’ and ‘what they said,’ and so on.
at calculate, v.
[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States II 118: It will be your fault [...] having now got seated down to scribbling, if I drown you in undecipherable goose-tracks.
at goose tracks (n.) under goose, n.4
[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States II 118: From being paupers in Europe, or rather mere ‘pisantry,’ that here they are the ‘real grit’ of the land.
at real grit (n.) under grit, n.1
[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States I 246: I am really sick of hearing of the [...] Mormonites, Jumpers, Shakers, Lynchers, Saturday Saints, &c.
at jumper, n.1
[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States I 121: The rail-road, which will be completed from Boston to this place [...] thanks to Paddy Whack.
at paddywhack, n.
[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States II 219: A certain portion of soft sawder [...] administered in the most delicate way imaginable, did the business.
at soft sawder, n.
[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States I 157: We got into the train [...] and were hurried along at a slashing pace till we got to Ballston springs.
at slashing, adj.
[US] A.M. Maxwell Run Through the United States II 169: Philadelphia used to have a fever commonly called ‘Yellow Jack.’.
at yellow jack (n.) under yellow, adj.
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