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In the ticket-office there were scuffles and fights, talk of filibusterism and races, but this did not produce any tickets, so that by a quarter before eight fabulous prices were being offered for them.

From The Reign of Greed by Derbyshire, Charles E.

He is, however, known to favor, first of all things, a Pacific railroad, is opposed to lawless filibusterism, and thoroughly in favor of the supremacy of free labor over slave labor.

From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.

Naturally, this aroused the spirit of retaliation, and dictated reprisals; so that in time both sides became more or less blamable for filibusterism.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

The next event in this fantastic drama of filibusterism was a war with the neighboring republic of Costa Rica.

From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Morris, Charles

Essentially this is filibusterism, more dangerous because more insidious than an armed invasion; it has caused nearly all the collisions which have occurred in oriental and occidental intercourse.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various