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• But was ever an American so passive? (8)
• If I am not an American, who ever was? (14)
• American and Indian marauders abounded. (19)
• Spillane.—History of the American Pianoforte. (3)
• Those South American things are no good at all. (8)
• Three distinct American armies began the attack. (19)
• Who is the most famous of American composer pianists? (3)
• Altogether he was a handsome, alert, modern American. (13)
• Well, it does me good to see an American, to know him. (9)
• An American tour is instructive, though not so romantic. (10)
• It was a profound stroke to make him an American by birth. (9)
• This hopeful, gambling American spirit was natural to him. (13)
• He asked Mr. Corey who was about the best American painter going now. (9)
• This prompt action greatly astonished the bombastic American general. (19)
• Cecilia named the schooner; an American that had beaten our crack yachts. (10)
• Many of the American troops were sick, and their artillery was insufficient. (19)
• He was through and through a Norseman, but he was none the less a very American. (9)
• To-day we certainly have no Hazlitts or Sarceys writing for the American press. (16)
• Does this confession of newspaper practice involve a libel upon the American people? (16)
• Who contributed the greater influence to American music, the Cavaliers or the Puritans? (3)
• American Literature has asserted and made good its claim to a definite place in the world. (14)
• The whole thing was very American in the perfect decorum and the utter absence of ceremony. (9)
• There is no occasion to defend the American judiciary from charges of wholesale corruption. (16)
• Indeed, I should call the present American work, North and South, thorough rather than narrow. (9)
• I owe my life to you and I pledge myself to do a duty that I owe to a true American gentleman. (18)
• These things perplexed him; he was afraid the great American novel, if true, must be incredible. (9)
• For herself she did not see, though, how the princess could be in love with that type of American. (9)
• But he was proud of his American citizenship; he knew all that it meant, at its best, for humanity. (9)
• In this and in some other things Longfellow was more European than American, more Latin than Saxon. (9)
• There will be the same American groups looking out over them, and rocking and smoking, though, alas! (9)
• In fine, I would have our American novelists be as American as they unconsciously can. (9)
• They were led by the American general, Harrison, who afterwards became President of the United States. (19)
• He forgot his contempt for that American habit of pull which he had much deplored in studio discussions. (13)
• This give and take between the press and the public is vital to a just conception of American journalism. (16)
• Peace was declared between Britain and America in 1783, but there was no peace for the American Loyalists. (19)
• The American general was disabled, many of his troops killed, and his position on the crest far from secure. (19)
• The American Republic, after thirty-five years of independence, quarrelled once more with the mother-country. (19)
• They were of a neater, more intelligent, more American class than those employed in other large retail stores. (13)
• The Stilton that we get here, clouted in tin-foil, is monstrous poor stuff, hardly better than our American sort. (7)
• I think they bear their share, in the quieter sort of way which we hope (it may be too fondly) is the American way. (9)
• The Englishmen treated this as a piece of genuine American humour, and returned to the charge with unabated courage. (9)
• This is what I find the fatal defect of our American Ossian, Walt Whitman, whose way is where artistic madness lies. (9)
• On July 13, 1865, while he was speaking in the Connecticut legislature at Hartford, the American Museum was consumed. (21)
• Many of them related to the comparative merits of English and American railroads, and what he thought himself of these. (9)
• She had a chirpiness, and a lift in her inflections, which if it was not exactly English was no longer Western American. (9)
• Again, also, as twenty years ago, the Cumberland people seemed more American in look and manner than other English folk. (14)
• For a number of years before the world war the amount of foreign news in the average American newspaper was very limited. (16)
• So I got leave of the consul at Trieste to transfer my captive to that port, where now and then an American ship did touch. (9)
• An American is not able to pronounce as to the verity of the type; I only know that it seems probable and that it is charming. (9)
• This is almost a weekly performance and causes Hassan to breathe awful Egyptian imprecations against modern American furniture. (21)
• An agent of the big American circus heard that he was the tallest pachyderm in captivity and that London was anxious to sell him. (21)
• Selwyn arose at a sign from Fox, and the three conspirators left for a private room to discuss the new phase of American politics. (18)
• This manifesto Arnold now caused to be distributed, assuring them of American friendship and asking the assistance of the Canadians. (19)
• But he deferred to his business superior with the sense of discipline which is innate in the apparently insubordinate American nature. (9)
• They draw not only from the up-town American region, but from all the vast hive of populations swarming between them and the East River. (9)
• If ever the sense of human equality has expressed itself in the human countenance it speaks unmistakably from American faces like theirs. (9)
• But one spirit animated them all, one hope fired all their bosoms, one faith drove them out of the American republic into the wilderness. (19)
• In face they were commonplace, with nothing but the American poetry of vivid purpose to light them up, where they did not wholly lack fire. (9)
• Once again {262} England was, in 1812, as she had been in the days of the American Revolution, engaged in a terrible struggle with France. (19)
• The American filled the glasses; they drank, leaned back and smoked, looked searchingly at each other from time to time, and said nothing. (12)
• The specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials covering the quality of cement should be followed where large purchases are made. (17)
• Fulkerson pushed March away from the ticket-office window; and made them his guests, with the inexorable American hospitality, for the ride down- town. (9)
• I had earlier had some dealings with him as a fellow-consul concerning a deserter from an American ship whom I inherited from my predecessor at Venice. (9)
• A public function quite in accord with his academic and literary tastes was the presidency, which he accepted, of the American Archæological Institute. (14)
• London draws the best brains of Ireland and Scotland, and there is always a small American contingent, mostly correspondents of the big New York journals. (7)
• She had not grown less American, certainly, since she had left home; even the little conformities to Europe that she practiced were traits of Americanism. (9)
• Probably the German conservatory best known to American readers is that founded at =Leipzig=, in 1843, by Mendelssohn, and of which he was the first director. (3)
• It therefore antedates the settlement at Jamestown, Va., by a few years, making the beginning of American history under English auspices and the Opera coincide. (3)
• Then he delayed for a rapid and comprehensive exchange of opinions and ideas, successfully blending military subordination with American equality in his manner. (9)

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Definition of american:

• american, a-mer’ik-an, adj. pertaining to america, esp. to the united states. | n. a native of america. | v.t. amer’icanise, to render american. | n. amer’icanism, a custom, characteristic, word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to americans: condition of being an american citizen: devotion to american institutions. (0)

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