What is "sidney"

Usage examples of "sidney".

Dissensions among Southern leaders - Uncle Tom's Cabin - Conscription begins - Abuse of Jefferson Davis - The battle of Shiloh - Beauregard flanked at Nashville - Old Colonel Chesnut again - New Orleans lost - The battle of Williamsburg - Dinners, teas, and breakfasts - Wade Hampton at home wounded - Battle of the Chickahominy - Albert Sidney Johnston's death - Richmond in sore straits - A wedding and its tragic ending - Malvern Hill - Recognition of the Confederacy in Europe .

Richmond had heard of the great battle of Shiloh, the failure to destroy Grant and the death of Albert Sidney Johnston.

He saw the proud rage of Bill, with his money in the Sidney Exchange, bigger than many station owners had, waiting his time to buy back on the land which his father had left.

I kept my fingers crossed through Sidney, Sadorus, Cerro Gordo, Decatur, and Blue Mound, and coasted into Taylorville on the fumes.

This had led to the near-obsession with teamwork which had inspired his colleagues to dub him Soft-shoe Sidney, on the assumption that he was at his best working in front of a chorus line.

Sidney Lomas sat drinking whisky and reading a New York comic paper.

The deerstalker hat was invented by a man called Sidney Paget, who did the illustrations for the original books.

It was the summer that Scott and Sidney, en famille, traveled to Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas where, according to the literature mailed prospective fee clients, Scott, that big player, gambled all again and again on a roll of the dice.

Sidney Coleman was one of the first to make the point, that there is no way for us to be sure our present vacuum is in the lowest possible energy state.

He took out the sheets upon which had been recorded the tracings and measurements of the footprints they had found under the window on the morning after the disappearance of Sidney Pebbles.

Sidney, Thwaite, and Garni sat on stools at a scarred and battered old oaken table.

He wasn't worth special attention unless, like me, you were pretending you were Maria Graim, the feelies star, and him Sidney Harch meeting you in the bar to give you a spy capsule.

That's when I pretended I was Maria Graim waiting at a Port Said bar to pick up a spy capsule from Sidney Harch like in the feelie I'd seen Sunday.

She wrote very firm letters to Sir William Sidney, Edward's chamberlain, and to his steward, Sir John Cornwallis, about the servants they would bring, about separate stabling for Elizabeth's horses, and about how much she was prepared to contribute to the joint household.

Would Sidney Poitier ever take a sofa or a large kitchen appliance from a store without paying?