Amasa
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Built for mine owner Amasa Campbell and his family, visitors can see the game room where Campbell entertained Spokane’s big wigs plus his wife Grace’s gorgeous all-pink reception room.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
After Amasa and Frances married, they settled in the county seat, Monroeville, where A.C., as he was known, had accepted a position managing a railroad line for a local law firm.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
Mills said that while researching the book, she talked to people who remembered the sisters’ father, Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer, playing golf in a three-piece suit.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2016
It was widely understood that Ms. Lee modeled Atticus on her father, Amasa Coleman “A.C.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2016
Near Inagáhuan, I found a man named Amasa who had a small cane-field, and was at work squeezing the cane with a great lever-press, which reminded me of the wine-presses in Teneriffe.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
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