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Definition of Baggers
1. bagger [n] - See also: bagger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baggers
Literary usage of Baggers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"It cost " carpet-baggers'" nothing to squander money which was furnished by their
political opponents. To crown all, the personal character of very many ..."
2. Studies in Southern History and Politics by William Archibald Dunnings, W. DUNNING (1914)
"VII CARPET-baggers IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE careers of the carpet-baggers in
the South have been told in many tales — how they fed on the fat of a lean ..."
3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"The so-called carpet-baggers, many of whom had been Union soldiers, were attracted
to the State by "dollar cotton " and cheap land. ..."
4. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"... Capitulation 853 Caricature 353 Carpet baggers 354 Cartel, (fee Exchange of
Prisoners.) Case, Lewie 855 Casus Belli 855 Caucus,The Congressional (in US ..."
5. The Life and Public Services of Winfield Scott Hancock, Major-general, U.S.A. by Frederick Elizur Goodrich, Frederick Octavius Prince (1880)
"General Hancock and the Carpet-baggers ... THE governors of the Southern States,
at this time, were of the sort known as carpet-baggers. ..."
6. White Conquest by William Hepworth Dixon (1876)
"CH APT Eli X. CARPET-baggers. WILLIAM P. KELLOGG'S private secretary comes to
the hotel to say that if we will pay a visit to the Legislature and Executive, ..."
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