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- noun Any of the members of an Irish-American
secret society , mostlycoal miners .
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Examples
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History buffs can explore something authentically local, such as the former Carbon County Jail, where the Molly Maguire union militants were manacled in underground cells and then hanged.
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That day, stories covered the deaths in the city of five people from sunstroke; an inquest into several deaths aboard the wrecked yacht Mohawk; and the murder conviction of three Molly Maguire assassins in Pennsylvania, an early glimpse of labor wars to follow.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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You will search in vain for an authentic Captain Swing who led the English agricultural rioters in the 1830s, a genuine Molly Maguire who fought Irish landlords in the 1840s or a real Rebecca who led rioters in Wales during that same decade.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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You will search in vain for an authentic Captain Swing who led the English agricultural rioters in the 1830s, a genuine Molly Maguire who fought Irish landlords in the 1840s or a real Rebecca who led rioters in Wales during that same decade.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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You will search in vain for an authentic Captain Swing who led the English agricultural rioters in the 1830s, a genuine Molly Maguire who fought Irish landlords in the 1840s or a real Rebecca who led rioters in Wales during that same decade.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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You will search in vain for an authentic Captain Swing who led the English agricultural rioters in the 1830s, a genuine Molly Maguire who fought Irish landlords in the 1840s or a real Rebecca who led rioters in Wales during that same decade.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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When I went down-stairs, Molly Maguire was waiting in the kitchen, and had the audacity to ask me if I thought the coat needed a new lining!
The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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In the afternoon Molly Maguire put on the striped fur coat and went out, going slowly past the house so that I would be sure to see her.
The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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I sat there, with a crowd of children paddling on a raft outside the window, and Molly Maguire, next door, hauling the morning's milk up in
The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Five times since then Molly Maguire has appropriated all that the flood carried from my premises to hers, and five times have I lifted my carpets and moved
The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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