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.
Searches are not case sensitive. For example: george will come up with the same results as George.
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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It proved a fascinating but puzzling book to me.
All his urgency and strenu- ousness he reserved for his book.
Some of the wounded are rebel officers,prisoners.
It aims, not to be a book, but to be a man.
Forth from thewar emerging,a book I havemade, The words of my book nothing,the drifof iteverything, A
As the afternoon waned, and he spoke of leaving us, somebody placed a book before the face of the clock
The book he knew best was the Bible, the prophetical parts of which stirred in him a vague desire to
Along with his pail he usually carried a book, between which and his solitary meal he would divide his
Once the book chanced to be a volume of Emerson; and from that time he took with him no other writer.
and discovering that the grave and silent man at a certain desk was the author of a reprehensible book