"He wasn't exactly a forty-niner," I acknowledged. From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
Yerba Buena and the reminiscences of a forty-niner. From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
Was it the spirit of some poor forty-niner come back again?. From Wordnik.com. [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference
"Hard luck," sympathized the old man, "coming near to being a forty-niner and missing it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
A forty-niner's a forty-niner, and a man that came in fifty -- well, he might as well have come in sixty or seventy, or even in the twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
At the time of our visit it was occupied by two men; one, a young Englishman, recently arrived from South Africa -- a remittance-man, in search of novelty -- the other a grizzled forty-niner. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
He has been seventeen years on the Pacific side of the continent, came out as a "forty-niner," has travelled a great deal, and taken notes of all he has seen, and said he thought of making use of them some time, if his employments would ever admit of it. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
It ran along a coastal barrier the other side of Biscayne Bay from young Miami — in 1868 when Henry Lum, a California 'forty-niner, first glimpsed the island from a schooner, you may be certain it was jungle, cocoanut palms on the sand, mangrove swamp and palmetto thicket ten feet off the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Southpaw Grammar] Reference
The Fed's a whiz, providing, like a forty-niner, the gold for fools it stores inside a Fort Knox vault, with all the tools that help us to delay default, which defies all common sense because we know they tell us lies about how much we're going to owe, and how much our children and grandchildren must pay when the clutch. arrives and we are dead as dust. From Wordnik.com. [Gershon Hepner: In Fed We Trust] Reference
His mother was a forty-niner who got off the wagon train in Salt Lake. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
Dodson led him to press forward with the first, and he was a "forty-niner," that pride of the old. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State] Reference
Appreciates the way she hikes her habit up to the knee and dances with joy, like a miner forty-niner. From Wordnik.com. [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference
The government agent was an old friend of mine, a California forty-niner, and a most companionable fellow. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier] Reference
The 4-bed, 3-bath "cottage" was built by a reportedly unknown architect in 1882 for John Nightingale, a forty-niner and "real estate dealer.". From Wordnik.com. [Curbed SF] Reference
Stuart was a "forty-niner," who had crossed the continent in a prairie-schooner as a boy and had drifted into Virginia City in the days of its hot youth. From Wordnik.com. [Roosevelt in the Bad Lands] Reference
San Francisco, for not only is she touched with the languor and the fire of her climate, but she is without the virile blood of the forty-niner, or the invigorating contact of the fresh Pacific wind. From Wordnik.com. [American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'] Reference
The conductors on the trains had taken care of us, because my father was a railroad man, at the head of the telegraph system; and we had been entertained on the way by the stories of an old forty-niner with a gray moustache, who told us how he had shot buffalo on those prairies where we now saw only antelope. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers] Reference
In the brief interim of upheaval we may possibly wish we could hark back to the days of the "forty-niner," who solved his individual problem of personal cleanliness by simply dropping his soiled clothing into a boiling spring, where it was turned and churned and twisted and finally flung out, a clean and purified testimonial to. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
It's the forty-niner that counts in this community. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
"You bet there were," agreed the forty-niner, "and the entire history of. From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
1849 Gold found in California the year before creates the great gold rush of 1849, and the term “forty-niner” is coined. From Wordnik.com. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference
Lived a miner, forty-niner. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Clementine"] Reference
Ye don't think she'd make any fuss to seein 'a rough old' forty-niner 'like me? ". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Redwoods] Reference
"Old forty-niner, this beats all I ever saw!". From Wordnik.com. [The Border Legion] Reference
When my brother, an "old forty-niner," as the. From Wordnik.com. [The adventures of two Alabama boys,] Reference
Babcock from New York, a forty-niner en route to. From Wordnik.com. [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference
@ 242, buyer 30; one forty-niner -- damaged -- at L23, seller ten, no deposit. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
I'm a forty-niner. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
Your grandfather was a forty-niner. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
"Miner, forty-niner, dreadful sorry, Clementine. From Wordnik.com. [Blaze]
"Dwelt a miner, forty-niner, and his daugh-ter, Clementine. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Morgan is my name -- Judge Morgan -- a Welshman and a forty-niner. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Wrecker] Reference
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