How To Use Custer In A Sentence
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General Alfred Terry traveled due west from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory with a force that included Custer and his Seventh Cavalry troopers.
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So, too, is the unforgotten linkage between Yellow Hair's scalping and the death of Custer.
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When Custer and staff returned he ordered the saddle taken off his brown horse and put on his favorite sorrel.
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On December 28 they were intercepted by the 7th Cavalry, the same branch of the U. S. Army that was headed by George Armstrong Custer in 1876 at the Little Bighorn.
Tim Giago: December 29, 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy' for the Lakota
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An unremaining glory: (being a supplement to they lie forgotten) a class album for the Class of June, 1861 (Custer's class) United States Military Academy ... material on the Class of May, 1861 by Mary Elizabeth Sergent
9/11 Blame It On Rio
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The interior - a quadrangle of rooms giving off an overgrown cloister garth - had something of the air of Custer's Last Stand.
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Custer says violence is at the core of what he calls a revenge society that now is Iraq.
CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2006
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I always flinch when I hear someone use the word decimate to mean "wipe out," as in, "The Sioux decimated Custer's men.
Prayers To Broken Stones
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more people know who the hamburgler is than emperor norton. this is your savage garden; this is my angel's gaol, my demiurge imbroglio. the i-ching reads 23 23 23, the coins spin 666 & i say again this savage garden i will slash & burn. stargazers will read of bad dreams in astrological morse code. here i come, custer, here come the woodwose people.
Mordicai: crown me king!
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Comment posted by bcuster on November 13, 2008 at 1: 29 am (#893489) the gliding irish showed hawkey east a thing or three last weekend …
Mets Geek
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After Custer is killed and Morris is wounded he is suddenly rescued by a man in futuristic armor and taken through a strange portal.
The Rock Screenwriters Adapting Time Travel Video Game Darkest of Days | /Film
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He had sold more saddles than Custer had men, and the old cow saddles with their big horns and high cantles didn't look like an army saddle nohow.
David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story
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The Indian scouts attached to Custer's overland force were among the best in the Montana and Wyoming area.
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It should have surprised no one that two years later, on a hot, windless afternoon in June 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by the Sioux near a river in southeastern Montana called the Little Bighorn.
Betrayed!
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A climactic event of that period was Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn in 1876, so of course the exhibit includes the buckskin coat that George A. Custer sometimes wore.
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Custer was a horrendous student, and the word able was not the first that came to mind when people described him.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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The book completes Wittenberg's literary efforts to bring to life the ‘trials and tribulations of the horse soldiers who followed Custer's guidon.’
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Custer calling Crabb "a perfect reverse barometer" is mirrored in the way the wise men of the Bush administration (and the Washington Post, et al.) dismissed the DFH's who opposed the invasion of Iraq.
A post that requires you to accept that I can do a passable impersonation of Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man
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General Custer: Have you ever seen so many fucking Indians?!?
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General Custer and his adjutant, Colonel Cooke, could be seen, lighting matches and candles in advance, trying to find the trail, which they succeeded in doing in a short time.
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The truth about Custer --- which is to say one of the truths about him --- that Berger is getting at through Jack Crabb is that Custer was intensely charismatic and he had that ability charismatic leaders have of convincing other people to subsume their egos in his and to start seeing the world the way they do, as being all about and for them.
A post that requires you to accept that I can do a passable impersonation of Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man
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There was an embarrassed staff-walloper on the platform at Chicago to convoy our hero to General Sheridan forth-with, and from little Phil we learned that Sherman had sent word that the Sioux expedition was definitely to proceed without Custer.
Isabelle
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Custer how is boom early - warning system to return a responsibility?
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So I was strict, marking the Custer manuscript heavily, lacing into its phraseology, conception, and organization.
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True, Custer's connection to impotence may have been largely metaphorical, but to a certain fretful portion of the populace it struck home.
Excerpt: Charlatan by Pope Brock
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Two of the properties are near Mancos in Montezuma County in southwest Colorado, another near Crawford in Delta County and five near Westcliffe in Custer and Fremont counties.
Polygamist Group Seeks Safe Haven In Colorado
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I am sick of being 'sired' and 'majestied' -- my name is Custer.
The Mad King
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He beamed, and I thought, oh God, please let him get off at Custer City; it was hot, and I was dog-tired, and wanted peace.
Isabelle
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We walked through the grasses that must have appeared much the same when Sioux warriors threaded their way towards Custer's men.
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Only days before Custer's loss, Crook's cavalry was mauled near the Rosebud River.
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I nodded modestly, and remarked that the last time I'd heard it drunk had been by Liprandi's Russian staff after Balaclava, and d'you know, Custer absolutely blubbed on the spot.
Isabelle
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Mr. Custer is the inventor of the statoscope, an instrument for recording the rise or fall in a balloon, and his talk will undoubtedly be of great interest to all.
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Where almost all the bodies of the Cavalry soldiers had been scalped the bodies of Keogh and Custer were not harmed apart from their battle wounds.
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I've heard 'em at Kabul before the Retreat, at Cawnpore, on the heights above the North Valley at Balaclava, and I won't swear someone wasn't croaking them as we laboured up the Greasy Grass slope. behind G.A. Custer, God rest his fat-headed soul.
Watershed
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As biographer to Custer and bosom friend to ‘Jannie’ Smuts, this man had seen the world and shaped its course.
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Custer has written what might be called a syncretic pop-culture myth, with a knowing eye for the different Biblical Nativity accounts read Matthew and Luke sometime.
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The prescribed area included the little village of Dayton, but when a few houses in the immediate neighborhood of the scene of the murder had been burned, Custer was directed to cease his desolating work, but to fetch away all the able-bodied males as prisoners.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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It's as completely scrubbed from the story as George Armstrong Custer's megalomania is from They Died With Their Boots On and the evils of slavery are from Gone With the Wind.
Lance Mannion:
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In 1874 Custer led an expedition to investigate rumours of gold deposits in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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His family settled there in the 1880s, high Hollywood western time, about a decade after the Sioux beat Custer.
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It's as completely scrubbed from the story as George Armstrong Custer's megalomania is from They Died With Their Boots On and the evils of slavery are from Gone With the Wind.
Lance Mannion:
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Then the sniff became a baritone groan, and when I looked, so help me it was Custer himself, with his hand to his brow, bedewing his britches with manly tears.
Isabelle
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The new drummer, widely accepted as being one of the most skilful the band ever used, was former Little America and Steve Earle stickman Kurt Custer.
LYNYRD SKYNYRD BIOGRAPHY « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie
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I was beginning to wonder if Custer wasn't perhaps some by-blow of the Flashman family.
Isabelle
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Thwarting a U.S. raid at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, Sioux and Cheyenne braves took no prisoners, killing Custer and 265 of his men.
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He was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, against a coalition of Native American tribes, an event popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand".
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Sighting a distant Indian encampment near the Little Bighorn, Custer prepared an attack on June 25, 1876.
Little Bighorn, Large Legend
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From here General Custer sent scouts out to ascertain the strength and locality of the enemy.
