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Definition of Seward
1. Noun. 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).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seward
Literary usage of Seward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1907 by Alfred Hulse Brooks (1908)
"Water supply of the Nome region, Seward Peninsula, 1906, by JC Hoyt and FFFF ...
The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, ..."
2. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"Such a man as Seward could not have made such a speech if peace had been possible,
and it is not logical therefore to say, as has been said, ..."
3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"Seward, who had recently been elected to the Sen-l ate ; and, to forestall
differences that might naturally arise, Thurlow Weed, a common friend, ..."
4. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"2 These were timely words, for Seward had for some time past been engaged in a
... of these 1 Bancroft's Seward, vol. ii.; Life of Seward, FW Seward, ..."
5. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"It can be used to bring you very great credit, Mr. Seward. Seward. In the mean
time, you will say nothing of this interview, beyond making your reports, ..."
6. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"Secretary Seward and Marshal Gooding had, as usual, got everything confused and
... Seward, fond of notoriety, of precedence and show, secretly and without ..."
7. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"It can be used to bring you very great credit, Mr. Seward. Seward. In the mean
time, you will say nothing of this interview, beyond making your reports, ..."
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