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Usage examples of adam.

It was Adam who contacted Oscar because they were at Abadan station together.

Believing that Adam was alive on Abaddon was better than believing that her own death was near.

Adam first arrived on Abaddon, he found small mitzvahs he could perform.

And here, on Abaddon, where God was most hidden, Adam found God most revealed.

Strongly opposed to the existing policy of short-term enlistments, Adams declared himself adamantly in favor of a regular army.

But Adams adamantly opposed hereditary monarchy and hereditary aristocracy in America, as well as all hereditary titles, honors, or distinctions of any kind--it was why he, like Jefferson and Franklin, strongly opposed the Society of the Cincinnati, the association restricted to Continental Army officers, which had a hereditary clause in its rules whereby membership was passed on to eldest sons.

John Adams was a lawyer and a farmer, a graduate of Harvard College, the husband of Abigail Smith Adams, the father of four children.

John Adams was also, as many could attest, a great-hearted, persevering man of uncommon ability and force.

As his family and friends knew, Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that.

There was no money in his background, no Adams fortune or elegant Adams homestead like the Boston mansion of John Hancock.

It was in the courtrooms of Massachusetts and on the printed page, principally in the newspapers of Boston, that Adams had distinguished himself.

It had been John Adams, in the aftermath of Lexington and Concord, who rose in the Congress to speak of the urgent need to save the New England army facing the British at Boston and in the same speech called on Congress to put the Virginian George Washington at the head of the army.

The general had since established a command at Cambridge, and it was there that Adams was headed.

A handsome young physician and leading patriot allied with Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, Warren had been one of the worthiest men of the province.

John Adams, whose first official position in Braintree had been surveyor of roads.