Nasby
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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After the war, one politician claimed that the rebellion had been put down by “the Army, the Navy, and the Nasby Letters.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2020
“I think it’s something Springfield can be very proud of,” Springfield resident Bruce Nasby said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2017
But both usages were antedated in writings by Carl Schurz in 1871 and Petroleum V. Nasby in 1866.
From Time Magazine Archive
Humorists have been many; in this field we count not only Lowell, Neal, and Holmes, but the younger band, which includes Artemas Ward, Mark Twain, Nasby, Bret Harte, Warner, and Leland.
From The Nation in a Nutshell by Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
In all conversations with Gough, and Anna Dickinson, Nasby, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wendell Phillips and the other old stagers, I could not observe that they ever expected or hoped to get out of the business.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) by Paine, Albert Bigelow
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