Lexicographical Neighbors of Dawsonites
Literary usage of Dawsonites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology by Geological Survey of Canada (1895)
"dawsonites, Gen. nov. A stout-bodied, rather large form ot ... dawsonites veter.
Pl . i, tig. 10. A crushed body with displaced parts shows nothing ..."
2. Two Women in the Klondike: The Story of a Journey to the Gold-fields of Alaska by Mary Evelyn Hitchcock (1899)
"... blind when I calls upon them," but he soon discovered his mistake, and the
cote was soon high in air near the river bank, giving the dawsonites and the ..."
3. Gold Hunting in Alaska by Joseph Grinnell (1901)
"There's the toughest crowd of people, sporting dawsonites, everyone ready to "
do " everybody else. It is the liveliest, speediest, swiftest mining camp ..."
4. Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life by George Jacob Holyoake (1906)
"Bearded persons • that day were locally known as " dawsonites." Thornton Hunt
was the editor, but GH Lewes, aft the husband of George Eliot, ..."
5. Alaska and the Klondike: A Journey to the New Eldorado with Hints to the by Angelo Heilprin (1899)
"... Mining Exchange. ed * The dawsonites are not entirely oblivious to the
discomforts of mud, for an effort is being made to block it out with sawdust, ..."
6. The Technical World Magazine (1912)
"By the beginning of March the happy dawsonites were bringing in garlands of
pussy-willows. An open air dance was given on the fifteenth of March. ..."
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