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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)
How To Use Seward In A Sentence
- Like Seward, Carey handed out a lot of clemencies for people in prison. Randy Credico: Congratulations Chuck! You've Knocked Me Off the Democratic Primary Ballot
- When I lived and worked in Sitka, Seward, Homer and Anchorage, I never met anyone in the Party who trusted Palin, or even liked her. Waldo Jaquith - Obama ahead in polls.
- On the night Lincoln was shot, another would-be assassin put Seward's son in a coma and slashed the secretary of state's face so savagely that the doctor who saved his life said he'd "looked like an exsanguinated corpse. David Quigg: HRC's Choice: Seward or Chase?
- Seward responds immediately, and reports to Holmwood.
- He sends Seward in his stead, and gives him all of the papers and diaries to read.
- But Palmerston's skill in management was unavailing in this case and the "muss" (as Mason called it) was continued when Lindsay entered upon a long account of the interview with Napoleon, renewed the accusations of Russell's "revelations" to Seward and advised Roebuck not to withdraw his motion but to postpone it "until Monday. Great Britain and the American Civil War
- Though he grew up in Ligonier, Corbett is not a stranger to the Seward and Armagh areas.
- Photo Gallery: Alaska A water lily carpeted pond edges Grayling Lake Trail, north of Seward, Alaska.
- But its encompassment by the sea, its peninsularity, is the dominating difference between the Seward Peninsula and the interior, and does indeed make a different country of it altogether. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
- The first patent for a compact epicyclic hub gear was granted in 1895 to the American machinist Seward Thomas Johnson of Noblesville, Indiana, U.S.A. Rectilinear or Obtuse? Cycling in the Media