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  • Reliefs were essentially two-dimensional sculptures, like Abraham Lincoln's profile on the penny.†   (source)
  • A photocollage of Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Booker T. Washington hung over the mantel.†   (source)
  • "Some others like you came here," says Abraham Lincoln, after Snowman has done his best with the fish.†   (source)
  • We bought presents for Gran and Gramps (a sweater with an angel on it and a new book about Abraham Lincoln) and toys for the baby and a new pair of rain boots for me.†   (source)
  • All my aunts and uncles were there, and Abraham Lincoln, and Saint George, and a nine-year-old girl named Linda who had died of a brain tumor back in fifth grade, and several members of the United States Senate, and a blind poet scribbling notes, and LBJ, and Huck Finn, and Abbie Hoffman, and all the dead soldiers back from the grave, and the many thousands who were later to die-villagers with terribl†   (source)
  • He wore an old-fashioned suit—Abraham Lincoln style—with a bow tie and long coattails and stuff.†   (source)
  • They saw Gobelin tapestries at the French Pavilion and the life-mask of Abraham Lincoln among the exhibits of the American Bronze Company.†   (source)
  • The Presidential Suite, with its cold elegance, had made her feel awkward and clumsy — it was all very well to visit some restored historical building with a bedroom plaque that announced Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt had slept there, but another thing entirely to imagine you and your husband lying beneath acreages of linen and perhaps making love where the greatest men in the world had once lain (the most powerful, anyway, she amended).†   (source)
  • All you had to do in one of these "Character Courses" was to read a few brief passages from famous works—a speech by Lou Gehrig here, a letter by Abraham Lincoln there—and then answer five questions about it.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln once said, "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother."†   (source)
  • The last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken by Samuel F. Warren on the White House balcony on March 6.†   (source)
  • She heard a girl behind her say, in awed tones, "Abraham Lincoln spoke here once."†   (source)
  • It's really kind of a beautiful story—like Abraham Lincoln or Socrates—or Asian.†   (source)
  • Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN   (source)
  • When they spoke English it wasn't what I expected in the land of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Gaunt, Abraham Lincoln but without the height or the beard.†   (source)
  • (without hesitation) Mr. Abraham Lincoln   (source)
  • His shoulder patch was a silhouette of Abraham Lincoln's profile on a field of pale green.†   (source)
  • Then I wished that Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner had killed all whitefolks in their beds and that Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and that Harriet Tubman had been killed by that blow on her head and Christopher Columbus had drowned in the Santa Maria.†   (source)
  • Anyway, he had yearbooks from every junior high in the nation that was named Abraham Lincoln Junior High.†   (source)
  • After chronicling the last days of Abraham Lincoln, the progression to John Kennedy was a natural.†   (source)
  • But old Stradlater kept snowing her in this Abraham Lincoln, sincere voice, and finally there'd be this terrific silence in the back of the car.†   (source)
  • Thomas walked to a painting of Abraham Lincoln and faced them again.†   (source)
  • The words Abraham Lincoln couldn't be spoke in his presence.†   (source)
  • Right now in this country, with its many national groups, all the old heroes are being called back to life-Jefferson, Jackson, Pulaski, Garibaldi, Booker T. Washington, Sun Yat-sen, Danny O'Connell, Abraham Lincoln and countless others are being asked to step once again upon the stage of history.†   (source)
  • I also joined the drama society and acted in a play about Abraham Lincoln that was adapted by my classmate Lincoln Mkentane.†   (source)
  • Sandburg won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln, and again in 1951 for his poetry.†   (source)
  • Almost a century and a half ago, Senator Stephen Douglas told Abraham Lincoln, who had just defeated him for the presidency, "Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism.†   (source)
  • I thought he looked a little like the pictures I had seen of Abraham Lincoln before he grew the beard—except for the small tufts of sand-colored hair on his chin and cheeks, the close-cropped hair on his head, and the side curls.†   (source)
  • And Abraham Lincoln: "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."†   (source)
  • It was kind of awesome for a while: him driving, me reading out loud, the two of us talking about everything, fractions and evolution, Abraham Lincoln's cabinet and which Hemingway book is the best.†   (source)
  • I sold everything from pencils and erasers to orange juice tops (which I claimed once sat on Abraham Lincoln's eyes!)†   (source)
  • It is to be placed on the desk of Abraham Lincoln the day after Lee has destroyed the Army of the Potomac somewhere north of Washington.†   (source)
  • We can find much of the answer in Abraham Lincoln's notable speeches: the Gettysburg Address, his first and second inaugural addresses, the peroration of his message to Congress on December 1, 1862.†   (source)
  • Crossing the porch in three long strides, tall and craggy as Abraham Lincoln and dressed not all that differently from Lincoln, Junior Whitshank inclined his head a quarter-inch in Abby's direction and then swiftly descended the steps.†   (source)
  • In Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln said: "We think the decision is erroneous.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln asked, in his own words, and I quote, "What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?"†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln was just two years old, she murmured.†   (source)
  • "Abraham Lincoln," she muttered.†   (source)
  • It was more than 100 years ago that Abraham Lincoln—a great President of another party—signed the Emancipation Proclamation.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln was elected President, and immediately throughout Texas the Lone Star flag was hoisted in an atmosphere of excited and belligerent expectation.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln's youngest son, Tad, had once gotten lost down there and almost perished.†   (source)
  • "We will come with you," says Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Then someone blurted it out: Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated in Washington last night!†   (source)
  • "Why would Crake become food?" asks Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln died this morning at 22 minutes after 7 o'clock.†   (source)
  • "Who are you?" said the one Crake had christened Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln's murder transformed a time of rejoicing in the capital to a time of mourning.†   (source)
  • "Welcome, oh Snowman," says the one called Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln's entry to Ford's Theatre at 8:30 P.M. on April 14, 1865, was majestic and simple.†   (source)
  • "Only Snowman can ever see Crake," Abraham Lincoln says mildly.†   (source)
  • Cutting open Abraham Lincoln's brain and body served little scientific purpose.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln ate breakfast with his family and planned his day.†   (source)
  • Ford's Theatre, site oil Abraham Lincoln's assassination†   (source)
  • But Abraham Lincoln recovered, and Mary did not.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln rose from his chair and walked toward the podium.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln's body was carried into the dim hallway that led to the rear of the boardinghouse.†   (source)
  • The heartbeat was weak, the breathing irregular, but Abraham Lincoln was still alive.†   (source)
  • Even worse, Booth saw the beginning of a change in how Abraham Lincoln was viewed by America.†   (source)
  • The morning Lincoln died, John Surratt heard the news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.†   (source)
  • The twelve-day chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin was over.†   (source)
  • For the last time, John Wilkes Booth saw the hands, now helpless, that had slain Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • And what of the president — had Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, or did the tyrant still live?†   (source)
  • If Ford's Theatre is Booth's place, then across the street there is a memorial to Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Not a soul in Maryland knew yet that Abraham Lincoln had been shot.†   (source)
  • At the Petersen house, Abraham Lincoln began the death struggle.†   (source)
  • Yes, he did kill Abraham Lincoln, but in every other way, Booth was a failure.†   (source)
  • He was no fan of Abraham Lincoln, the Union, or black people.†   (source)
  • We began this book associating John F. Kennedy with Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • One mile away, in his White House bedroom, Abraham Lincoln slumbers peacefully.†   (source)
  • Throughout his presidency, John Kennedy often referenced Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • At seven feet long and three inches thick, it makes a perfect stretcher for Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln's eleven-year-old son, Willie, took ill and died here in 1862.†   (source)
  • Now he knows just where and how and when he will shoot Abraham Lincoln dead.†   (source)
  • It was, in other words, the flag of Abraham Lincoln's dreams.†   (source)
  • The assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865 was a spiderweb of conspiracy.†   (source)
  • And this is why Abraham Lincoln is watching the battlefield.†   (source)
  • John Wilkes Booth, in the days before he shot Abraham Lincoln, also longed to be such a man.†   (source)
  • And it is a most powerful evil that is now bearing down on Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Daniel Chester French's iconic white marble statue of Abraham Lincoln looms over King's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Throughout the nation, as the news spreads, Abraham Lincoln's worst fears are being realized.†   (source)
  • Booth nurtures a deep hatred for his father and the nation's father figure, Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • At fifty-six years old, Abraham Lincoln is spent.†   (source)
  • Did he have any part in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?†   (source)
  • Night is a time of terror for Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln is a religious man but not a churchgoer.†   (source)
  • "Crook," Abraham Lincoln says to his bodyguard, "I believe there are men who want to take my life.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln has never fought in battle.†   (source)
  • He also wants to show the world that he, Booth, was the mastermind behind killing Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • I am the man who will end Abraham Lincoln's life.†   (source)
  • Mary Lincoln never recovered from Abraham Lincoln's assassination.†   (source)
  • He extends his arm and aims for the back of Abraham Lincoln's head.†   (source)
  • Death is no stranger to Abraham Lincoln, and in that way it is less terrifying.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln, but—†   (source)
  • Even in the rain he could make out the landmarks, looking surprisingly the way the books had pictured them—the Lee Mansion high on the hill, the bridge, and twice around the circle, so he could get a good look at Abraham Lincoln looking out across the city, the White House and the Monument and at the other end the Capitol.†   (source)
  • Yetta didn't know who Abraham Lincoln was, but that whispering just added to the electric charge in the audience.†   (source)
  • Monterey Square this morning looked just the way it had looked ten years before when the movie about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was being filmed.†   (source)
  • It's a pun, you cork-nut "Crake watches over us in the daytime, and Oryx watches over us at night," Abraham Lincoln says dutifully.†   (source)
  • He had passed the point of no return: He had given aid and comfort to Abraham Lincoln's killers and now he lied about it to protect them.†   (source)
  • The restoration of the theater was meant as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln, but Ford's has also become a memorial to his assassin.†   (source)
  • Edwin Stanton continued his investigation as Abraham Lincoln slept his last, deep sleep at the Petersen house.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln had ordered work on building the Capitol dome to continue during the war as a sign that the Union would go on.†   (source)
  • Presidents come here again to attend plays, but out of respect for Abraham Lincoln, none sits in the president's box.†   (source)
  • The real hero is Abraham Lincoln and the principles for which he lived — and died: freedom and equal rights for all Americans.†   (source)
  • She later framed the cherished relic with dried flowers that had decorated Abraham Lincoln's coffin at the White House funeral.†   (source)
  • Actress Laura Keene's knowledge of the theater's layout enabled her to bypass the audience and crowds that stood between her and Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln took his last breath.†   (source)
  • Six magnificent white horses drawing a carriage carrying Abraham Lincoln's coffin made their way up the avenue.†   (source)
  • Yes, Mudd had agreed to help Booth with the kidnapping of Abraham Lincoln, but no one had consulted him about murder!†   (source)
  • The driver snapped the reins and the modest parade, escorted by a small group of bareheaded officers on foot, took Abraham Lincoln to the White House.†   (source)
  • At the Petersen house, Abraham Lincoln would soon have more doctors than he could ever want, but little use for any of them.†   (source)
  • In this elevated position, the near-lifeless body of Abraham Lincoln became visible to the entire crowd gathered below.†   (source)
  • He did not need doctors to tell him what would happen: Abraham Lincoln was going to die, and there was nothing the doctors could do about it.†   (source)
  • As late as January 1865, with the Confederacy in danger of collapse at any moment, not one of the conspiracies resulted in serious action against Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Young John Garrett, back from an errand at a neighboring farm, reported that the U.S. government was offering a $140,000 reward for Abraham Lincoln's assassin.†   (source)
  • Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone married, but eighteen years later he went insane and murdered her, using a gun and knife, the same type of weapons Booth carried the night he killed Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • On April 10, Abraham Lincoln appeared at a second-floor window of the Executive Mansion, as the White House was known then, to greet a crowd of citizens celebrating General Lee's surrender.†   (source)
  • Had Booth tried, the sergeant and his guards would have shot the actor out of his saddle and the manhunt would have ended then and there, less than an hour after Booth had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • The very next day, the tyrant Abraham Lincoln had visited his captive prize and had the nerve to sit behind the desk occupied by the first and last president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis.†   (source)
  • Except for a handful of doctors, government officials, and family friends who would enter the Petersen house, that glimpse of the president ascending the stairs was the last time Americans saw Abraham Lincoln alive.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln slept, too.†   (source)
  • The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, only days after the end of the war, was a terrible tragedy.†   (source)
  • For example, many important people throughout history were considered different, such as Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • And in a basket I saw a straightening comb, switches of false hair, a curling iron, a card with silvery letters against a background of dark red velvet, reading "God Bless Our Home"; and scattered across the top of a chiffonier were nuggets of High John the Conqueror, the lucky stone; and as I watched the white men put down a basket in which I saw a whiskey bottle filled with rock candy and camphor, a small Ethiopian flag, a faded tintype of Abraham Lincoln, and the smiling image of a Hollywood star torn from a magazine.†   (source)
  • I said that as freedom fighters we could not have known of such men as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson "and not been moved to act as they were moved to act."†   (source)
  • Officer Williams seemed happy about that, although I don't know what great good it would be; there must be nine hundred Abraham Lincoln whatevers in wherever.†   (source)
  • "The perfect liberty they sigh for," said Abraham Lincoln, is "the liberty of making slaves of other people."†   (source)
  • Received his appointment to West Point through the good offices of Abraham Lincoln, a personal friend, and no one now can insult Abe Lincoln in Pickett's presence, although Lincoln is not only the enemy but the absolute utterest enemy of all.†   (source)
  • Officer Williams called and said there were only a few Abraham Lincoln Junior High schools and that he was going to get me all their year books, and I'd go through the pictures to see if I recognized Throw-Up.†   (source)
  • Because, said northern soldiers almost as if in echo of Abraham Lincoln, once admit that a state can secede at will, and republican government by majority rule would come to an end.†   (source)
  • In his Second Inaugural Address, on March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln stated a proposition to which most historians today as well as most Americans of Lincoln's time would assent: slavery before the war had been a "powerful interest.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I don't think I did too well on that, but when he quietly, slowly, caringly asked me to recall every detail that Throw-Up had said about his personal life or past, I remembered that one day, when we were sitting by the lake throwing rocks in and talking about my Philomena Farnsworth Junior High and what a funny name that was, he said that his junior high was just plain old Abraham Lincoln junior High.†   (source)
  • Jackie Kennedy was insistent that her husband's funeral be as much like Abraham Lincoln's as possible.†   (source)
  • The following letter is the best evidence that John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln were indeed kindred spirits.†   (source)
  • But as death threats against Abraham Lincoln mounted in the waning days of the Civil War, these police officers shifted their protective focus to the president.†   (source)
  • He sees a comparison between the successful outcome of the Cuban missile crisis and Abraham Lincoln's stable leadership that brought about the end of the Civil War.†   (source)
  • Unlike Abraham Lincoln, whose shoulders sagged and whose face grew lined and weary from the strains of being president, John Kennedy truly enjoys the job—and it shows.†   (source)
  • The high rate of speed ensures that the shell will travel all the way through the brain and out the front of the skull, rather than lodging inside like the slower bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • In Washington his craving for authority has many in the White House referring to him as Seward, a reference to Abraham Lincoln's power-hungry secretary of state.†   (source)
  • The Secret Service protection given President Kennedy is constant, and contrasts sharply with the protection given Abraham Lincoln a hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • But he is still learning, as Abraham Lincoln also learned, that the decision to use force should not be determined by men whose careers depend upon its use.†   (source)
  • Fifty thousand men and women stand in pouring rain and ankle-deep mud to watch Abraham Lincoln take the oath of office to begin his second term.†   (source)
  • At ten-fifteen on the night of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln slumps forward in his rocking chair.†   (source)
  • These people never thought they'd see the day Abraham Lincoln would be strolling down the streets of Richmond as if it were his home.†   (source)
  • Few men could have successfully followed Abraham Lincoln as president, but Andrew Johnson proved particularly inept.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln drops Mary's hand as he rises to put on his overcoat, tailored in a black wool specially for his oversized frame by Brooks Brothers.†   (source)
  • The last days of Abraham Lincoln's life included perhaps the most dramatic events in the nation's history.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln is the undisputed leader of the world's most ascendant nation, a country spanning three thousand miles and touching two oceans.†   (source)
  • But Laura Keene is not maudlin or the slightest bit dramatic as Abraham Lincoln's blood and brains soak into the lap of her dress.†   (source)
  • So astonishing was his physique that another man unabashedly described young Abraham Lincoln as "a cross between Venus and Hercules."†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln is their enemy no more.†   (source)
  • John Wilkes Booth epitomizes the evil that can harm us, even as President Abraham Lincoln represents the good that can make us stronger.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln has chosen this precise moment to lean forward and turn his head to the left for another long look down into the audience.†   (source)
  • Edwin Stanton did not live long after the death of Abraham Lincoln, and those years he did live were fraught with controversy.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln's irresponsible bodyguard John Parker never presented himself for duty or tried to help in any way on the night of the assassination.†   (source)
  • As it grows and becomes more rowdy, every guzzle and utterance has a hum, an anticipation: Abraham Lincoln is speaking tonight.†   (source)
  • The truth is, Abraham Lincoln does believe in God and has relied on Scripture in overcoming all the challenges he has confronted.†   (source)
  • One week after the assassination, even as John Wilkes Booth is still alive and hiding in a Maryland swamp, the body of Abraham Lincoln is loaded aboard a special train for his return home to Illinois.†   (source)
  • They will tell their children's children about the night after the war was won, the night they heard the great Abraham Lincoln frame the victory in the most beautiful and poetic way possible.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln once confided to Mary that he longed to be buried someplace quiet, and so it is that the president and his dear son are destined for Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery.†   (source)
  • President Abraham Lincoln's only bodyguard, a man with a career-long history of inappropriate and negligent behavior, has left his post for the last time.†   (source)
  • But a half-drunk Booth needs to get on a horse now—right now—and gallop through Washington, D.C., reassuring himself that he has a way out of the city after putting a bullet in Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • And while Abraham Lincoln has gone home to finally get the rest he has so long deserved, that unfinished business will have to wait until his murderer is found.†   (source)
  • Just as Abraham Lincoln felt a slight instant of pain and then nothing at all when Booth shot him, now Booth hears the crack of a rifle and feels a jolt in his neck, and then nothing.†   (source)
  • But on the night of April 14, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln relaxes in his rocking chair and laughs out loud for the first time in months, John Parker gets thirsty.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln's head pokes over the top of his rocking chair, just four short feet in front of Booth; then once again he looks down and to the left, at the audience.†   (source)
  • It is eerie that Abraham Lincoln found much solace in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, given that the two great men met their ends in the same way.†   (source)
  • So it is fitting when, eleven short days later, a thirty-six-star flag will be folded into a pillow and placed beneath Abraham Lincoln's head after a gunman puts a bullet in his brain.†   (source)
  • The Lincolns look out directly onto the stage, while Clara and her beau must turn their heads slightly to the right to see the show—if they look directly forward they will be gazing at Mary and Abraham Lincoln in profile.†   (source)
  • The five-foot-eight General Grant, an introspective man whom Abraham Lincoln calls "the quietest little man" he's ever met, has Petersburg completely to himself He lights a cigar and basks in the still morning air, surrounded by the ruined city that eluded him for 293 miserable days.†   (source)
  • While John Wilkes Booth is still in Newport, a hungry Robert E. Lee is in Amelia Court House, Ulysses S. Grant is racing to block Lee's path, and Abraham Lincoln stands on the deck of USS Malvern as the warship chugs slowly and cautiously up the James River toward Richmond.†   (source)
  • The twofold challenge he now faces is the traditional assassin's plight: find the most efficient path into the state box in order to shoot Abraham Lincoln and then find the perfect escape route from the theater.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's responsible bodyguard William Crook had a more esteemed career, working in the White House for more than fifty years—a time that spanned administrations from Abraham Lincoln's to Woodrow Wilson's.†   (source)
  • Like Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • During the winter of 18 5 9-60 when Abraham Lincoln was campaigning for the Republicans in the New England states, he spoke of the reason for the difference in the point of view of the South and the North.†   (source)
  • The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, the event in which the obscure Ross was to play such a dramatic role, was the sensational climax to the bitter struggle between the President, determined to carry out Abraham Lincoln's policies of reconciliation with the defeated South, and the more radical Republican leaders in Congress, who sought to administer the downtrodden Southern states as conquered provinces which had forfeited their rights under the Constitution.†   (source)
  • To Abraham Lincoln, "He was my beau ideal"; to the half-mad, half-genius John Randolph of Roanoke, he was, in what is perhaps the most memorable and malignant sentence in the history of personal abuse, "a being, so brilliant yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks."†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth.†   (source)
  • He was born about the time Abraham Lincoln was living and getting himself ready to be president.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln, he had de whole United States tuh rule so he freed de Negroes.†   (source)
  • Here were hundreds of books, all about Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln was nineteen years old when Andrew Jackson was elected President.†   (source)
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN to the 166th Ohio Regiment.†   (source)
  • Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile smile smile "As that great patriot Abraham Lincoln said "†   (source)
  • In addition, the Spanish Armada had been defeated; President Abraham Lincoln assassinated, and the Halifax Fisheries Award had given $5,500,000 to Britain for twelve-year fishing privileges.†   (source)
  • Across the wall of the room in which the man sat was a bold sign, reading:The White House: Under the sign was a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the features distorted to make the face look like that of a gangster.†   (source)
  • They didn't always agree with his political opinions—Roosevelt was the faultless descendant of Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Abraham Lincoln—but they felt he had a fine head and would have gone far in politics.†   (source)
  • He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president.†   (source)
  • He looked at the pictures of the Christ crucified, and Abraham Lincoln, and Vergelegen, and the willows in the winter.†   (source)
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