House in Washington, D.C.

Usage examples of blair.

Although casualties could be expected in the Virginia campaign, and enemies of the Blair family were ready to criticize any party-giving in the midst of war, he thought it important to show confidence in the country and unconcern about criticism.

Major Jaunty Blair and his daughter, Bethany, who once played Ophelia at Oxford.

Before then, I, Philip William Progmire, took Bethany Abigail Blair to be my lawful wedded wife.

Was this some secret codeword to alert the bodyguard that it was time to Linda Blair my neck?

That was why Blair felt that he and his sons could claim a good share of the credit for the unrelenting refusal to bow to the disunionism that had brought on this war.

Blair, relying on the internal evidence of their antiquity, asked Dr. Johnson whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems?

He had Gordon Blair with him, the usual two housemen, and towering over them all, Adam.

The first guard, Jake Blair, Morg Tussler, and Clay Zilligan, were detailed to cut and drive the squads into the chute.

Against the advice of his Cabinetall but the strong-willed Montgomery Blair, a West PointerLincoln had decided to wage war rather than permit the Southern malcontents to break up the government.

Across the street, the whole Blair family turned out on the porch of their house, waving a large flag.

Lincoln and Blair may be personally unsympathetic to slavery, as am I, but they are surely not for abolition.

On the high road to Washington, not far from the Silver Spring estate of the Blair family, the carriage lurched and splashed thin mud.

I rather admire our Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair, and the Tycoon certainly respects his father, Old Man Blair.

Francis Preston Blair, at seventy, considered himself the last remaining link of the government in Washington to the days of Andrew Jackson, with the possible exception of Roger Taney.

Western stock who had snatched the presidency from the aristocrats of the Adams dynasty in Massachusetts, had burned into Blair an idea that was heldthen and nowby only a minority of Americans: that the Union was more than the sum of the states.