Sentence example with the word 'filibustering'

filibustering

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In Franklin cemetery rest the remains of Daniel Boone and of Theodore O'Hara (1820-1867), a lawyer, soldier, journalist and poet, who served in the U.S. army in 1846-1848 during the Mexican War, took part in filibustering expeditions to Cuba, served in the Confederate army, and is best known as the author of "The Bivouac of the Dead," a poem written for the burial in Frankfort of some soldiers who had lost their lives at Buena Vista.   [Please select]

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"I suppose you know that's filibustering, to fly your private banner on foreign soil."   [Please select]

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What better time could there be to launch a filibustering expedition against Mexico.   [Please select]

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You have an idea I am a wild, filibustering, hot-headed young man.   [Please select]

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What I don't know about the Fine Art of Filibustering now is unnecessary.   [Please select]

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This meant that the expedition would be dealt with as a filibustering one.   [Please select]

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Relations with Spain were frequently strained on account of American filibustering expeditions to aid Cuban insurgents.   [Please select]

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He wanted to go filibustering with Walker, and she had to get down on her knees.   [Please select]

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The climax came in 1873, when the Spanish authorities in Cuba captured on the high seas the Virginius* with a filibustering expedition on board and executed fifty-three of the crew and passengers, among them eight Americans.   [Please select]

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Ostensibly we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico in case she appeared to contemplate war.   [Please select]

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