What is "polk"

Usage examples of "polk".

I hit out acrost the mountains, and the next morning found me eating breakfast at the aidge of War Paint, with a old hunter and trapper by the name of old Bill Polk which was camped there temporary.

And he hit Polk County under the jaw and knocked him clean acrost the yard into a rain barrel amongst the rooins of which he reposed till he was rescued and revived some hours later.

General Grant has thought about it, which may be why he moved so quickly to take Paducah when Polk moved into Kentucky.

Leonidas Polk in Tennessee, anticipating a move by the Yankees on Paducah, has sent a Confederate force across our border.

She had gone to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow to do research with Linden Polk.

It was a lucky thing that the impatient rebel General Polk had blundered by invading Kentucky, giving Grant the excuse to grab Paducah and pose his threat to Fort Henry.

On October 14th, in token of our earnestness in this matter, and in case you do not relent, we shall kill a policeman on or near the corner of Polk Street and Clermont Avenue.

I went away with the assurance that they would look into it and that the vicinity of Polk and Clermont would be doubly patrolled on the night mentioned.

The tragedy was enacted in the full glare of the street lights on the corner of Polk Street and Clermont Avenue.

His own brigade, led by Cols. Middleton and Polk, Taylor and Lacy, advanced in front, under shelter of a line of negro houses, which they were ordered to occupy.

Polk and Cleburne and Breckinridge and Forrest and Fighting Joe Wheeler and a whole long roll of famous Southern generals were there.

All his generals, Hardee, Breckinridge, Polk, Cleburne and the rest were in position and the cavalry was led by Wheeler, a youthful rough rider, destined to become famous as Fighting Joe Wheeler.

I demanded that Sal (the crafty Sicilian owner of the joint at Polk & Jackson Streets where I had been studying for my exams over pitchers of draft beer) hang it behind the bar over the cash register.

The majority of military bases in the continental United States are named after Confederate officers - Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, Fort Hood, Fort Polk, Fort Rucker.

Polk, even the Death page has been restored to its former glory, with two full-length obituaries running daily.