Abraham Lincoln

English vertical Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait.jpg Abraham Lincoln US $5 Series 2006 obverse.jpg A five-dollar bill (sense 2) 2005 Penny Obv Unc D.png A penny (sense 3) Etymology From Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), the sixteenth president of the United States of America, noted for his integrity and for abolishing slavery. Senses 2 and 3 are after the portrait of Lincoln featured on them. Noun An emancipator or analogous reformer. en 1890 Thomas Wallace Knox The Boy Travellers in Mexico: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to ... Harper & brothers Table of contents, pg. viii The Abraham Lincoln of Mexicopg. 124-5 He has been called the Washington or the Lincoln of Mexico ; To him Mexico owes the Laws of the Reform and the concessions that have brought railways into the country and opened it up to commercial relations with the rest of the world. 1908, William Garrison, quoted in Annie Le Porte Diggs, The Story of Jerry Simpson, Jane Simpson (publisher), pg. 252: He was greatly beloved and regarded as the Abraham Lincoln of Kansas. When the history of reform is written; when we have a government administered by and for the people let it be said of Jerry Simpson that he gave the best of his life to free labor from the bondage of capital. (Quoted passage) 1995, "Pakistanis silence youthful voice against child labor," 1995, April 1, Chicago Tribune, p. 6, in 2005, William A. Corsaro, The Sociology of Childhood, Pine Forge Press, pg. 25 0761987517: In a seven-minute acceptance speech, Iqbal said he wanted to become a lawyer "'so he could become the Abraham Lincoln of his people'" 2001, Barbara Olson quoted in Evelyn L. Damore, The Rattle and Hiss of the Tin Gods, iUniverse, 0595228445, pg. 180: In the words of Clinton's openly homosexual advisor David Mixner, 'Clinton became the Abraham Lincoln of our movement' en US slang rare A United States five-dollar bill. en Abe Abe Lincoln Lincoln en 1989 w:John Mitchum George Fargo Standing on the Vietnam Front Line Them Ornery Mitchum Boys (The Adventures of Robert and John Mitchum) Pacifica, Calif. Creatures at Large Press book 6 (Adventures in the ’60’s) 200 https://archive.org/details/themornerymitchu0000mitc/page/200/mode/1up 0-940064-06-5 Say—I got the telephone bill this morning. Fifty-two clams for long distance. I’m just an extra, James, not a star. I can’t afford fifty-two Abraham Lincolns for the phone. en 2003 August Ercille Christmas Thoughts of a Proud American: An Ode to “Joe and Josephine Ordinary, Salt of the Earth Americans” Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire w:AuthorHouse 2006 606 https://books.google.com/books?id=nWykOE4xV1gC&pg=PA606 1-4259-4971-1 OK, Lord I am staying, so please open that umbrella, or better yet rain down some Abraham Lincolns and some Ben Franklins on me. I cannot name any higher denomination of money – never been privileged to see anything over a $100 bill. en 2010 Tony Nolan Step Over Hurt Healer: Reaching Out to a Broken World Grand Rapids, Mich. Baker Books part 2 (Showing Jesus) 139 https://archive.org/details/hurthealerreachi0000nola/page/139/mode/1up 978-0-8010-1352-2 My heart sank, and began to grieve deeply as I contemplated how many times my mother might have been passed out on that very bench years ago after going through a horrendous night of sexual favors in exchange for a few Abraham Lincolns. en US slang rare A penny United States coin. en Abe Lincoln<ll:rare> en Jan Zimlich Not Quite Paradise New York, N.Y. Love Spell, Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc. September 1995 179 https://archive.org/details/notquiteparadise0000ziml/page/179/mode/1up 0-505-52051-6 It was the same expression Grampa had worn the first time they played this game, right before he declared himself the winner. / He waffled over his options a few seconds longer, then tossed the required coins in the middle of the table and added two more. “I lift your Abraham Lincolns with an additional two.” / Garner rolled his eyes toward the ceiling. “How many times have I got to tell you people? You’re supposed to say, ‘I raise you,’ not lift!” / “All right. I raise you two Abraham Lincolns.” en w:U.S. News & World Report 122 1997 14 Find a penny, pick it up, and all day, you’ll have good luck. But you sure won’t have much buying power. Today, 1 pound of Abraham Lincolns ($2) will purchase what 4 tiny ounces bought in 1970. en 2003 Rebecca A. Wilson The Mexican Restaurant Project Judy Harris Helm; Sallee Beneke The Power of Projects: Meeting Contemporary Challenges in Early Childhood Classrooms—Strategies and Solutions Early Childhood Education Series New York, N.Y. w:Teachers College Press; Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children chapter 6 (Supporting Second-Language Learners) 76 https://archive.org/details/powerofprojectsm00helm/page/76/mode/1up 2 0-8077-4298-8 Morgan was especially excited about making the coins for the cash register. She came to school and said, “Mrs. Wilson, I made George Washingtons and Abraham Lincolns for our cash register!” en Jon Weece Jesus Prom: Life Gets Fun When You Love People Like God Does w:Nelson Books 2014 110 9781400206902 My kids have a piggy bank full of pennies. They love to dump the pennies on the floor and count them. Stacks of Abraham Lincolns. One hundred Abraham Lincolns equals one George Washington. 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