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  • noun American satirical poet (1750-1831)
  • noun American Revolutionary leader who as governor of Connecticut provided supplies for the Continental Army (1710-1785)
  • noun American painter of historical scenes (1756-1843)

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  • Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters.

    Chronic City: Summary and book reviews of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem. 2009

  • The town of Lordstown is located in Trumbull County, Ohio which is the second hardest hit area in the state.

    President Gives Speech to GM Autoworkers in Lordstown | myFiveBest 2009

  • As reported earlier in the Dryden Courier, Supervisor Trumbull is very enthusiastic about the purchase, though opinions of other board members were more mixed.

    Living in Dryden: March 2004 Archives 2004

  • As reported earlier in the Dryden Courier, Supervisor Trumbull is very enthusiastic about the purchase, though opinions of other board members were more mixed.

    Living in Dryden: Conservation, environmental planning, and a golf course 2004

  • Have you considered the case of John Trumbull (1756-1843), the American artist who fought in the War of Independence, after which he traveled to London and paris (as many Trumbles before and since) and worked with West the Quaker neoclassicist; apparently Trumbull is well represented in your American museums and he wrote his “Autobiography” (1841, repr.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Have you considered the case of John Trumbull (1756-1843), the American artist who fought in the War of Independence, after which he traveled to London and paris (as many Trumbles before and since) and worked with West the Quaker neoclassicist; apparently Trumbull is well represented in your American museums and he wrote his “Autobiography” (1841, repr.

    Letter from Hamish 2009

  • It is no answer to that assertion to call Trumbull a liar merely because he did not specially say that Douglas struck it out.

    Fourth Joint Debate at Charleston. Mr. Lincoln's Rejoinder 1897

  • I have one of the handbills calling a Trumbull meeting at Waterloo the other day, which I received there, which is in the following language: —A meeting of the Free Democracy will take place in Waterloo, on Monday, Sept. 13th inst., whereat Hon.

    Third Joint Debate at Jonesboro. Mr. Douglas's Speech 1897

  • It is no answer to that assertion to call Trumbull a liar merely because he did not specially say that Douglas struck it out.

    The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4 The Lincoln-Douglas debates Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • It is no answer to that assertion to call Trumbull a liar merely because he did not specially say that Douglas struck it out.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837

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