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US
/ˈhɪɡɪnsən/
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NOUN
- United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911)
How To Use Higginson In A Sentence
- The state of old maidism was reached at a very early age in those early days; Higginson wrote of an "antient maid" of twenty-five years. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
- Three other people, including Higginson, deny aiding and abetting corruption.
- It did not share the metrical perfection of a Longfellow or the tiresome "priapism" (Emerson's word, which Higginson liked to repeat) of Walt Whitman. 'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson'
- Captain Higginson clamoured wildly for an injunction. Chun Ah Chun
- And when Emily's editor friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson felt that her work was much too chaotic and unsmooth, Mabel sang the poems out loud so that Higginson could comprehend their melody. Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson & Her Family's Feuds"
- The diary of James Higginson indicates that only about 1 per cent of his family's trips involved droving.
- Phillips, and Higginson, who had called a disunion convention, demanding that the free states secede. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
- In the popular eye, Cotton Mather concentrated all the sacred memories of the great "decemvirate," as Higginson called it, of the Mathers, who had been set apart as Ministers of God; and he was venerable, besides, in the associations connected with the hallowed traditions of his maternal grandfather, whose name he bore, John Cotton. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply