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What can be more merry than their voices, ringing out upon the air in play—and what, than their innocent

(an instrument, by the by, which discourses very eloquent music, well–played, and is cheap to buy, and

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The chief traps for these good folks are the mock auction shops, or "Peter Funk" establishments.

"Peter Funk" was a popular term for a decoy purchaser who falsely bid up prices on a product in partnership

See Louise Pound, "'Peter Funk': The Pedigree of a Westernism," American Speech 4.3 (February 1929),

the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing

the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing

The comet, as a subject of alarm, is “played out,” and besides, it never succeeded in alarming any body

“All work and no play.”

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take a fancy to the gutta percha; should an iceberg in its bouleversement snip it through, it is "no play

The game played yesterday afternoon between the Atlantic and Putnam Clubs, on the grounds of the latter

On the fourth innings the Putnams made several very loose plays, and allowed their opponents to score

9 runs, and those careless plays were sufficient to lose them the game.

On every other innings, they played carefully and well, as the score will show.

The Atlantics, as usual, played splendidly, and maintained their reputation as the Champion Club.

The grand match between the Long Island and New York Clubs will be played on Tuesday next, commencing

The first match game of the season between first class clubs, was played yesterday after noon, by the

The play on both sides was excellent; that of the Masten, the catcher of the Putnam side, in particular

They play the Eagle Club, of Hoboken, on the 24th inst., at Carroll Park, and all who witness the game

The Putnams play a match game next week with the Atlantic Club, the champions of Long Island, and if

A challenge has been sent to the Clubs of New York and Hoboken to turn out six men to play a match against

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He became so familiar that his name frequently appeared in books, plays, periodical titles, and as a

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He became so familiar that his name frequently appeared in books, plays, periodical titles, and as a

See Peter Adams, Bowery Boys: Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion (Westport, CT: Praeger

The Journal gives several anecdotes relative to the play of some first-rate performers.

accustomed to take one pocket to his opponent's five; and, to convey a notion of his experience, he has played

one individual alone fifty thousand games of this kind; that is to say, estimating four games to be played

Peter Rosenquest, who has been for nearly a generation in the employ of the firm.

Such provocatives of patriotism as then existed cannot now come in play again.

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Young gentlemen will not play ball, or pitch quoits, or wrestle and tumble, or any other similar thing

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When Sarah's father, George Jansen De Rapelje, was settled on his farm in the Wallabout, Peter Minnet

It was Peter Minnet (alternately Minuit) who, on May 6, 1626, purchased Manhattan from the Lenape Indians

events and persons departed from the stage, now in the midst of the turmoil and excitement of the great play

the same period, two other worthy men, immigrants also from Holland, named Frederick Lubertse and Peter

And then how everything changed with the dashing and merry jig played by the same bugles and drums, as

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s.

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s.; Our

Plays and equestrian performances of a second-rate character were given there at intervals for about

Holloway's note] ) the bricks were imported from Holland; in the administration of Stuyvesant, Governor Peter

See Iona and Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (New York: New York Review of Books,

Whitman is playing here on Hamlet's line in Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet : "I am but mad north-north-west

Whitman is playing here on Hamlet's line in Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet: "I am but mad north-north-west:

This phrase comes from Robert Montgomery Ward's popular 1831 play The Gladiator, written for Edwin Forrest

.; This phrase comes from Robert Montgomery Ward's popular 1831 play The Gladiator, written for Edwin

For instance, in 1625, the Dutch governor, Peter Minnet, Peter Minnet (alternately Minuit) was appointed

plenty of the skulls and other bones of these dead—and that thoughtless boys would kick them about in play

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s. made

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s.; John

The fight over the bank played out through much of Jackson's presidency (1829–1837).

The fight over the bank played out through much of Jackson's presidency (1829–1837).; The Long Island

It had three tiers of boxes, and was about as large and convenient as the "old Richmond Hill," the play-house

very inferior order; and consequently the more educated families of our town avoided the place on play-nights

It created as much buzz and electioneering by-play, on a small scale, as among the cardinals in Rome,

Walter (alternately Wouter) Van Twiller was the second Dutch governor of New Netherland, succeeding Peter

During the administration of Governor Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant was the last Dutch governor of New

Peters. Mr.

We would not readily believe that Peter Cooper, "De Santy," C.W.

We cannot avoid thinking that the same game has been played with the Cable as is said to be carried on

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A number of the idle boys were playing around the basin and climbing up the marble jet, and it was generally

garden or as vacant lots would be—for they might raise potatoes in the first, and their children might play

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Peters, surrounded by quite a swarm of surgeons and students.

office for a still longer period of time, and down to within a year or two since; with the presence of Peter

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:268.

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:25. —and later ones of the great Kean.

Peters, and Doctors A. C. Post, T. F.

Ingersoll played Richmond .

And how he used to play such parts as Pythias , to Forrest's Damon ?

For such were the plays, and finely sustained, that we used to go and see at the Old Bowery.)

Charley Thorne, who was then young and strong, and rosy and full of fire, played Tressel .

The Lady of Lyons was a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

.; The Last Days of Pompeii was a play by Louisa Medina, who would later marry the actor Tom Hamblin.

It was the first play to achieve a "long run" in the United States, remaining on stage for twenty-nine

Like Booth, he also played Richard III in New York.; The "Kemble school" refers to a style and philosophy

It is clear that Whitman prefers Scott's style of acting.; The Sledge Driver was a play by Eliza Planche

, whose husband, James Robinson Planche, was also a playwright.; The Lady of Lyons was a play by Edward

and dress—in a Bowery restaurant, the actor Frank Chanfrau began mimicking the style in a popular play

nonchalance, not disturbed in the least by the rumpus, which at one time made more noise by far than the play

The band up in the gallery plays ambitious pieces from the great composers, &c.; but it does not disturb

and dress—in a Bowery restaurant, the actor Frank Chanfrau began mimicking the style in a popular play

Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (New York: Peter

The time is rapidly approaching when a new and balancing force will come into play—a force composed of

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Brooks, has essayed to play principal (instead of second, as before) in a Congressional outrage, and

Whitman here quotes from the play Tragedy of Brutus written by John Howard Payne in 1818.

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.; Whitman here quotes from the play Tragedy of Brutus written by John Howard Payne in 1818.; Bishop

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Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 1: 93.

It is obvious therefore that these materials play a certain part in our well-being, and that if they

"To love Rome more than Caesar" refers to Shakespeare's play, "Julius Caesar."

The play is about the fall of Caesar and the war that ensues after Caesar's assassination.

Hughes and the New Era Bishop John Hughes (1797–1864), who played an important role in New York City

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.; "To love Rome more than Caesar" refers to Shakespeare's play, "Julius Caesar."

The play is about the fall of Caesar and the war that ensues after Caesar's assassination.

Adams, distinguishing all three from the current Democrats.; Bishop John Hughes (1797–1864), who played

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