Esop, a slave; Bloomfield, a shoemaker; Lincoln, a rail-splitter. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
Here is where Lincoln gained his great reputation as a rail-splitter. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Lincoln the rail-splitter wasn't just a thinker, a lawyer or a president. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Legacy Celebrated In Dance] Reference
Buchanan was now a private citizen and the pioneer rail-splitter was at the head of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
I remember how I struggled against their arguments that Lincoln was an uneducated, uncultured rail-splitter. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
The rail-splitter upon the sparsely settled lands of Kentucky was fired with a purpose and a recognition of his place among men. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898] Reference
He was a farmer, a rail-splitter, a plow-boy and a boatman. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
November Abraham Lincoln, "the Illinois rail-splitter," was elected. From Wordnik.com. [The Beginner's American History] Reference
A friend, with his eyes aglow, asked me what I thought of 'Abe' Lincoln, the rail-splitter. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference
The rail-splitter can be so easily encouraged to believe that rail-splitting is his vocation. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise of American Life] Reference
It seemed to him quite an improvement on being a farm - hand, a flat-boatman, or a rail-splitter. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes Every Child Should Know] Reference
What they seemed proudest of was that he had been a rail-splitter, for nearly all bore a fence-rail. From Wordnik.com. [The Crisis — Volume 03] Reference
Each stamp captures Lincoln at different parts of his life and career: Lincoln the "rail-splitter," Lincoln the lawyer. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
These rails have become classical in our history, and the name of rail-splitter has been more than the degree of a college. From Wordnik.com. [Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings] Reference
It took me many years to find out what a rail-splitter was; but the rail-splitter's name was Lincoln, and he became my first hero. From Wordnik.com. [From the Bottom Up]
Mr. Julian Mitchell was indignant at the idea of submitting to the rule of a "rail-splitter," and of such men as Seward and Cameron. From Wordnik.com. [My Diary North and South] Reference
For some months after leaving his father's home Lincoln worked in the neighborhood, most of the time as a farmhand and rail-splitter. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Later American History] Reference
This rail-splitter, this postmaster, this flat-boatman, whom he had not credited with a knowledge of the New Code, was talking Astronomy. From Wordnik.com. [The Crisis — Volume 03] Reference
Ben Jonson was a bricklayer; Livingstone, the traveler and explorer, was a weaver; Abraham Lincoln was a "rail-splitter" and a farmer boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Wanted] Reference
He worked at chopping rails with the rail-splitter on more than one job.). From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book]
As the rail-splitter said. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Conceptions of Constitutionality — More Thoughts In Reply to Randy:] Reference
There was great curiosity to see the Western rail-splitter who had so lately met the famous "Little. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference
As a rail-splitter he had no equal. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Boyhoods] Reference
He looked like a common rail-splitter. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
"What do you mean by a 'rail-splitter'?". From Wordnik.com. [Daisy] Reference
This rail-splitter, a true-born king of men. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference
Father was not successful as a rail-splitter. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Boyhood and Youth] Reference
The enduring image of the rail-splitter. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories] Reference
"rail-splitter.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of the United States] Reference
Lincoln the rail-splitter. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist] Reference
This rail-splitter -- a true born king of men. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference
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