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Example sentences for "four forty"

  • Congress as usual had plenty of wordy patriots who raised the cry of "Fifty-four forty or fight," and it was repeated throughout the country.

  • Fifty-Four Forty" as courageously as we march upon the Rio Grande?

  • Buchanan was one of the leading spirits in the demand for fifty-four forty, and his position was well understood both by the people of the United States and by England.

  • We will have "Oregon and fifty-four forty, or fight.

  • A political party painted upon its banners, "Oregon, fifty-four forty, or fight.

  • That Marseillaise of '44, Mr. President, says Fifty-four Forty or Fight.

  • Our backwoodsmen have invented a phrase which runs Fifty-four Forty or Fight!

  • Why not march up to 'fifty-four forty' as courageously as we march upon the Rio Grande?

  • They had laid out their farms in the Willamette Valley when the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" forced a settlement of the Oregon boundary.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    born from; continually increasing; four bells; four cases; four corps; four degrees; four dimensions; four fingers; four guns; four large; four lemons; four million; four more; four pairs; four pounds; four sail; four slices; four species; four spoonfuls; four times; foure hundred; fourteen guns; fourth book; fourth month; fourths inches; then might