From this it may be seen that not one-half, perhaps not a quarter, of all the various forces that won the Revolutionary war were purely American.

It is a thrilling and distinctively American spectacle, and it makes one feel proud and glad to be part of the people who are achieving it.

There are some trees which are peculiarly American, being confined to the Western continent, and unknown in other parts of the world.

The New York Journal catches inspiration from the wonderful courage of the Tenth Cavalry and writes these words: "The two most picturesque and most characteristically American commands in General Shafter's army bore off the great honors of a day in which all won honor.

The idea was essentially American and Northern.

John Dillon was one of those frontiersmen rightly called typically American.

HISTORY OF SQUASH TENNIS Squash Tennis is one of the few racquet and ball indoor sports that can be termed honestly and strictly "American" in origin, whereas Squash Racquets has its roots in England going as far back as the 1850s.

Mr. Boynton is what a friend of mine called "intensely American."

" Cincinnati Enquirer:"As a veteran of the diamond, well qualified to do so, Mr. Spalding has committed to print a professional's version of the distinctly American game.

Philip Wylie (A); 31May62; R296002. Emotionally American.

I need scarce say that it is not so much the horse as the perfect teaming that produces the result; and all Tac's training is exclusively American, and received in a place not very far from Philadelphia, from which he gets his name.

~The American Girl.~ The German may sing of his rosy-cheeked lass, The French of his brilliant-eyed pearl; But ever the theme of my praises shall be The laughing American girl, Yes, the jolly American girl.

The temptation is great to purchase a foreign machine on sight; resist the temptation until you have ridden in it over a hundred miles of sandy, clayey, and hilly American roads; you may then defer the purchase indefinitely, unless you expect to carry along a man.

They are as instinctively American and democratic in sympathy, as those of the opposite type are Pro-German.

Well, of course, in a town geographically American, the shops were all shut on Sunday, and we couldn't buy even an Easter egg on Easter Sunday.

She began to speakher voice very low, her accent clearly English, her brevity wonderfully American.

Sometimes he combined with hunting and trapping the functions of an Indian trader, but ordinarily the American, as distinguished from the French or Spanish frontiersman, treated the Indian trade as something purely secondary to his more regular pursuits.

It is truly and emphatically American, without example or parallel.

"General Lee's character was eminently American.

* * SOUTH AMERICAN MANNERS.

The author's specially American quality, also, though not dominant, comes out clearly in 'Unguarded Gates,' and with a differing tone in the plaintive Indian legend of 'Miantowona.' If we perceive in his verse a kinship with the dainty ideals of Théophile Gautier and Alfred de Musset, this does not obscure his originality or his individual charm; and the same thing may be said with regard to his prose.

No, my own boy is straight American, if he's living now.

Its lustrous folds are welcomed by a city that is strangely American, in the sense that it is what the world largely calls "Yankee," and does not mean bad manners by the most expressive word that has so vast a distinction.

One building only, evidently newly made, and of lumber, had a decidedly American appearance.

The perfect freedom with which many loyal men talked to and before him puzzled him; and their characteristicly American habit of indulging in gloomy forebodings as to the nation's futurewhen they were not insisting that the said future would be one of unparalleled magnificencegave him wild hopes that it might prove possible to corrupt them.