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Definition of Continentals
1. continental [n] - See also: continental
Lexicographical Neighbors of Continentals
Literary usage of Continentals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements Until by Louis Houck (1908)
"In Cape Girardeau county: Thomas Bull of the Virginia Continentals, John Harbison
of Captain John Holder's Company, John Cockran of the North Carolina ..."
2. Millard Fillmore Papers ...: Ed. by Frank H. Severance by Millard Fillmore (1907)
"ON RECEIVING A FLAG FOR THE UNION Continentals On July 4, 1861, Mrs. OG Steele, "in
behalf of the ladies of 1812," presented to the Union Continentals,1 ..."
3. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society by Buffalo Historical Society, Albert Bigelow, Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) (1907)
"ON RECEIVING A FLAG FOR THE UNION Continentals On July 4, ... Numerous papers
relating to the Union Continentals, including minutes of meetings, etc., ..."
4. Washington and His Generals: Or, Legends of the Revolution by George Lippard (1847)
"They crossed the stream, and rushed into the house in pursuit of the flying
continentals. They searched the rooms on the first floor; they hurried along the ..."
5. Folk Songs by John Williamson Palmer (1861)
"If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn, and let her go ; For if she be not for
me, What care I for whom she be ? GEORGE WITHER. THE OLD Continentals. ..."
6. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1859)
"... have occasion for the bullocks in those provinces which they invade, and the
Continentals will require to be extremely well nourished during the long ..."
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