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Seventy Years in Texas choose

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[US] (con. 1871) J.M. Franks Seventy Years in Texas 111: Old Dad and Jim Day got on a high lonesome and started to paint the town red.
at high lonesome, n.
[US] (con. 1850s) J.M. Franks Seventy Years in Texas 73: The boss of the outfit was called the ‘ramrod’ or ‘rod’.
at ramrod, n.
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