| Richard Frothingham - 1851 - 460 pagina’s
...house, and he has a movable partition in his garrett, which he takes down, and the whole club meet in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot...regularly ; and selectmen, assessors, collectors, wardens, firewards, and representatives, are regularly chosen before they are chosen in the town. Uncle Fairfield,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1887 - 720 pagina’s
...tobacco, till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other ; there they drink flip, I suppose ; there they choose a moderator, who puts questions to the vote regularly ; and select-men, overseers, collectors, wardens, fire-wards, and representatives are regularly chosen before they are... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 pagina’s
...garret of Tom Dawes, adjutant of the Boston regiment. " He has a large house, and he has a moveable partition in his garret which he takes down, and the...suppose, and there they choose a moderator, who puts qxiestions to the vote regularly; and select-men, assessors, collectors, wardens, fire-wards and representatives,... | |
| John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 pagina’s
...gentlemen of the army, the bar ; retails prosody, writes upon money, Province sloop.1 Boston. February. This day learned that the Caucus Club meets, at certain...regularly ; and selectmen, assessors, collectors, wardens, fire-wards, and representatives, are regularly chosen before they are chosen in the town. Uncle Fairfield,... | |
| Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 468 pagina’s
...which he takes down, and the whole club meet in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot sec from one end of the garret to the other. There they...regularly ; and selectmen, assessors, collectors, wardens, firewards, and representatives, are regularly chosen before they are chosen in the town. Uncle Fairficld,... | |
| 1873 - 806 pagina’s
...this word is probably in the following passage in John Adams's diary, dated Boston, February, 1763 : " This day learned that the caucus club meets at certain...puts questions to the vote regularly, and selectmen, overseers, collectors, wardens, fire wards, and representatives are regularly chosen before they are... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 832 pagina’s
...whole club meets in one room. There they smoko tobacco till yon cannot see from one end of the sirret to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose a moderator «ho pnts questions to the vote regularly, and •v!e"tmen, overseers, collectors, wardens, fire wards,... | |
| 1881 - 446 pagina’s
...whole club meets in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you can not see from one end of the room to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and...moderator who puts questions to the vote regularly ; arid selectmen, assessors, collectors, wardens, fire wards and representatives are regularly chosen... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - 1882 - 870 pagina’s
...till you can not see from one end of the room to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, anil there they choose a moderator who puts questions to...regularly; and selectmen, assessors, collectors, wardens, fire wards and representatives are regularly chosen before they are chosen in the town. Uncle Fairfield,... | |
| Eben Greenough Scott - 1882 - 368 pagina’s
...Club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. * * * There they choose a Moderator, who puts questions...; and select-men, assessors, collectors, wardens, fire-wards, and representatives, are regularly chosen before they arc chosen ill the town." " More... | |
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