Texas
['teksəs]
Definition
(noun.) the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Definition
(n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.
Typist: Sol
Examples
- Or Corpus Christi, Texas, or Butte, Montana. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Near the close of the short session of Congress of 1844-5, the bill for the annexation of Texas to the United States was passed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- People who saw the Southern herd of buffalo, fifteen or twenty years ago, can appreciate the size of the Texas band of wild horses in 1846. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Texas was originally a state belonging to the republic of Mexico. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He introduced himself as 'Texas Jack'--Joe Chromondo--and said he wanted to see Edison, as he had read about me in the newspapers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Guayule is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That you abandon Texas entirely, with the exception of your hold upon the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This tree is found along the coast region from North Carolina to Texas. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In his short stay in Texas he acquired a very different opinion of the country from what one would form going there now. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the United States the largest deposits of salt are found in the states of Michigan, New York, Ohio, Utah, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas and California. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Texas, I think. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was in the condition of Sam Houston, the pioneer and founder of Texas, who, it was said, knew no fear. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is equivalent to our phrases from Maine to Texas --from Baltimore to San Francisco. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mexico had never recognized the independence of Texas, and maintained that, even if independent, the State had no claim south of the Nueces. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Texas, as an independent State, never had exercised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Nita