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- United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872)
How To Use Seward In A Sentence
- His nomination, moreover, had been secured through the diplomacy of conservative Republicans, whose morbid dread of "abolitionism" unfitted them, as I believed, for leadership in the battle with slavery which had now become inevitable, while the defeat of Mr. Seward had been to me a severe disappointment and a real personal grief. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872
- In 1979, Tim Seward sat in my audience wide - eyed and eager to grow.
- Seward's late speech at Rochester as revolutionary and disunionist. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
- a chance to be in New York and meet Seward he would have 'squelched' it there also, it never occurred to him to breathe a word against Pryor. My day : reminiscences of a long life,
- Seward he would have "squelched" it there also, it never occurred to him to breathe a word against Pryor. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862
- The Seward family cultivated an 'open door' policy at the Bishop's Palace, holding breakfast, tea, dinner and supper parties and musical evenings, to which many from the prebendary houses in The Close: The Addenbrookes, Smallbrookes, Woodhouses, Vyses and the Garrick ladies. Anna Seward (1742-1809)
- Seward was "meddlesome" toward other departments; "runs to the President two or three times a day; wants to be Premier," etc., says Welles. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him
- Richard H. Dana wrote, confidentially, that "Seward was awful grouty. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
- Although many adults remember chickenpox as a nuisance, sickening children for a week with a fever and itchy rash, the disease can lead to deadly complications, such as pneumonia, a brain inflammation called encephalitis and even infection with flesh-eating bacteria, Seward says. Vaccine has nearly eliminated chickenpox deaths in children
- Frederick Seward was coming down the stairs when he met the "deliveryman," Lewis Powell, alias Lewis Paine. The Night Lincoln Died