Stanton
['stæntən;'stɑ:-]
Definition
(noun.) United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902).
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Examples
- Mr. Stanton dismissed the special train that had brought him to Indianapolis, and accompanied me to Louisville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With Mr. Stanton the case is different. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Stanton said that the usual live-stock accompaniment of operators' boarding-houses was absent; he thought the intense cold had caused them to hibernate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Stanton, when I was working in Cincinnati, left his position and went out on the Union Pacific to work at Julesburg, which was a cattle town at that time and very tough. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On the receipt of Mr. Dana's dispatch Mr. Stanton sent for me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Eckert (who had been Assistant Secretary of War with Stanton). Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Stanton never questioned his own authority to command, unless resisted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- STANTON, Secretary of War. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This was characteristic of Mr. Stanton. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In walked Stanton. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I met here a telegraph operator named Stanton, who took me to his boarding-house, the most cheerless I have ever been in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Secretary Stanton, who was on his way back from Savannah, arrived off Fort Fisher soon after it fell. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had never met Mr. Stanton up to that time, though we had held frequent conversations over the wires the year before, when I was in Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The enemy would not have been in danger if Mr. Stanton had been in the field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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