Simply enter the word you wish to find and the search engine will search for every instance of the word in the journals. For example: Fight. All instances of the use of the word fight will show up on the results page.
Using an asterisk (*) will increase the odds of finding the results you are seeking. For example: Fight*. The search results will display every instance of fight, fights, fighting, etc. More than one wildcard may be used. For example: *ricar*. This search will return most references to the Aricara tribe, including Ricara, Ricares, Aricaris, Ricaries, Ricaree, Ricareis, and Ricarra. Using a question mark (?) instead of an asterisk (*) will allow you to search for a single character. For example, r?n will find all instances of ran and run, but will not find rain or ruin.
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Searching for a specific phrase may help narrow down the results. Rather long phrases are no problem. For example: "This white pudding we all esteem".
Because of the creative spellings used by the journalists, it may be necessary to try your search multiple times. For example: P?ro*. This search brings up numerous variant spellings of the French word pirogue, "a large dugout canoe or open boat." Searching for P?*r*og?* will bring up other variant spellings. Searching for canoe or boat also may be helpful.
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wandered alone, bare- headed, barefoot, Down from the showered halo and the moonbeams, Up from the mystic play
Picaninies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with a little round button at the top; and they all fell to playing
Young gentlemen will not play ball, or pitch quoits, or wrestle and tumble, or any other similar thing
In this sphere his long practical acquaintance with the laws of mechanics has been brought into play;
garden or as vacant lots would be—for they might raise potatoes in the first, and their children might play
the shadow of the mantle of his late distinguished progenitor and namesake falling upon him, have played
and as he has in all probability a long career yet to run, I look forward with confidence to his playing
Yet he found time in early youth to mingle in the toilsome “play” of the firemen.
where his natural abilities, sharpened as they have been by the struggles of partisanship, have full play
description—yet as my series of sketches would be incomplete if it did not include a man who has played
It should then be much out of doors, and should play, dance, sing, and shout as nature dictates.
the bench, has been rather more obscure in his history than accords with the prominent part he once played
A number of the idle boys were playing around the basin and climbing up the marble jet, and it was generally
Whether the Board of Commissioners have in any way played foul with the funds under their control.
steam-power, iron, granite, and hardening cement—these made to subserve the most stupendous and swiftly-playing