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Definition of Filibustering
1. filibuster [v] - See also: filibuster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filibustering
Literary usage of Filibustering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, William Nemos, Frances Fuller Victor (1888)
"The circumstances under which this partition was effected gave rise to the term
filibustering, interpreted as piracy by the sufferers, and softened by the ..."
2. History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1904)
"... journey thither through large Atlantic cities was to raise funds for a new
filibustering enterprise to Cuba, the plan he had never ceased to cherish. ..."
3. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"FOREIGN INFLUENCE AND KNOW-NOTHINGISM. "filibustering"— THE ... themselves the
degenerate sons of filibustering sires, to hurl at him as a reproach what was ..."
4. A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents by Francis Wharton (1887)
"... open resort to armed vessels or to filibustering parties. " I see no reason
why overt preparations in this country for the commission of criminal acts, ..."
5. The Story of Two Wars: An Illustrated History of Our War with Spain and Our by Henry Benajah Russell, Redfield Proctor (1899)
"CHAPTER IV filibustering EXPEDITIONS AND THE DEATH OF LOPEZ — THE BLACK ...
Cuba—Spain Refuses to Sell —Lopez and His Uprising — His filibustering Attempts ..."
6. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"... had gone on another filibustering expedition; but as soon as he began operations
he and his party were arrested by Paulding, an American naval commander ..."
7. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"Change of feeling. — Efforts to purchase. — filibustering expeditions. — Taylor's
proclamation. — Propositions of England and France. ..."
8. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"But the chances of profit from a filibustering expedition to the eastern parts
operated as a strong attraction on the minds of the merchants. ..."
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