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from missouri

prep.phr. skeptical, not easily convinced.

Usage examples of "from missouri".

Rogers is from Missouri and I'm just dying to see Kitty Foyle again.

Sergeant Lykes had his mules shaped up, and Captain Mercy was ready, but the two wagons from Missouri showed no signs of life.

There had, indeed, been a full year of peace since Geary's arrival, but early in October there was to occur the election of a territorial Legislature in which the free-state forces had agreed to participate, and Lane feared an invasion from Missouri.

In the composite time lines coded 'Cyrano', Mr Roosevelt had both a third and a fourth term, died in his fourth term and was succeeded by his vice-president, a former Senator from Missouri named Harry Truman.

Such a thing, happening in the upper river in the old times, could have transferred a slave from Missouri to Illinois and made a free man of him.

Sellers knows everybody from Missouri, and from the West, too, for that matter.

There's a sheriff from Missouri and at least a brace of private detectives working for the railroads, too.

Lawrence is the hotbed of abolitionism in Kansas, and most of the property stolen from Missouri can be found there, ready and waiting to be taken back by Missourians.