All 15 Uses
republic
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Lonesome Dove
(Edited)
- The Pumphreys ran a store; the baby their daughter was expecting would arrive in the world to find itself fatherless, since the boy who had married the Pumphrey girl had drowned in the Republican River in the fall of the year, with the girl only just pregnant.
Chpt 3-4
- I might drown in the Republican River, like the Pumphrey boy.
Chpt 15-16
- "If you drown in the Republican River, I'll give your part to Jake," Call said.
Chpt 15-16
- "It might beat drowning in the Republican River," Augustus said.
Chpt 23-24
- LONG BEFORE THEY STRUCK the Republican River, Elmira had begun to wonder if any of it was worth it.
Chpt 66-67
- I might find out that I'm going to drown in the Republican River.
Chpt 66-67
- Near the Republican River he had his second piece of bad luck.
Chpt 77-78
- From the bluff he could see far north across the Republican, almost to Nebraska, he supposed.
Chpt 77-78
- Five days after the snake bit him, July saddled up and rode across the Republican River.
Chpt 77-78
- Nebraska's north of the Republican River, which we ain't come to yet.
Chpt 77-78
- As the herd approached the Republican, Call's thoughts were back on the Brazos, where Jake had been allowed to go astray.
Chpt 79-80 *
- When they sighted the Republican River, Gus was with him.
Chpt 79-80
- That afternoon they swam the Republican without losing an animal.
Chpt 79-80
- At supper afterward, Jasper Fant's spirits were high—he had built up an unreasoning fear of the Republican River and felt that once he crossed it he could count on living practically forever.
Chpt 79-80
- For a week, down from the Platte and across the Republican, he could not forget what she said: that he had never done right, that he and Gus had ruined one another, that he was a coward, that she would take a letter to the boy.
Chpt 101-102
Definitions:
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(1)
(republic as in: the country is a republic) of a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws; or someone in favor of such a form of government
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, the word form Republican is commonly used to describe one of the major U.S. political parties. It is and has been used by many other organizations such as The Irish Republican Army.