webster

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• Of the three nominated, Webster did the best, receiving 12 votes, Gohmert and Yoho received three and two votes, respectively.

• The definition of “innuendo,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “an oblique allusion.”

• But, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.

• From the 1820s to the 1850s, the upper house was dominated by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John Calhoun.

• And Daniel Webster, a great opponent of slavery, supported the vile Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act and all.

• And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.

• Mr. Webster could not have hit my crotchet more exactly, if he had taken aim at it on purpose.

• If any one does not know the difference between create and make, let him turn to his dictionary, and Webster will inform him.

• He has been all his life an ardent Whig, and Clay and Webster were his standards of political orthodoxy.

• When the edition of those speeches was prepared, a selection from Webster's great speeches was contemplated as a companion volume.