Buchanan
[byoo-kan-uh n, buh-]
- James,1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
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Contemporary Examples
No Emmas, no Ishmaels, no Pips, no Daisies (Miller or Buchanan).
None of this would have surprised Kolko, who died earlier this year, or Buchanan, who died in 2013.
Buchanan went right to the oval office to tell Reagan the news.
“The following week we did the delayed SOTU, but [I] cannot even recall what was said,” Buchanan wrote in his e-mail.
“Our grandparents would not recognize the America in which we live,” Buchanan writes.
Historical Examples
Mr. Cruikshank maintains that you write the best Latin since Buchanan.
The Letters of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
This account is found also in the History of Scotland by Buchanan, who says he heard it from his elders.
The Phantom WorldAugustin Calmet
Mrs. Buchanan remained in office seven years, until her marriage.
He is even said to have threatened the Duke of Montrose in his own residence at Buchanan.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745Mrs. Thomson
Buchanan, perhaps, could do little; but that little he did not do.
A History of the United StatesCecil Chesterton
Buchanan
- George . 1506–82, Scottish historian, who was tutor to Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI; author of History of Scotland (1582)
- James . 1791–1868, 15th president of the US (1857–61)
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