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  • noun Plural form of marshalship.

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Examples

  • They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, postoffices, landoffices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) 1989

  • They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, _chargé_-ships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

    Fifty Years of Public Service Shelby M. Cullom

  • Moreover, many of the States are divided into several marshalships from considerations which do not at all enter into the taking of the census.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

  • They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face post-offices, land offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, chargé-ships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands ....

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • They have seen in his [Douglas’s] round, jolly fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet-appointments, charge-ships and foreign missions, bursting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

    Quotations 1919

  • They have seen in his [Douglas’s] round, jolly fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet-appointments, charge-ships and foreign missions, bursting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

    Quotations 1919

  • They have seen in his [Douglas’s] round, jolly fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet-appointments, charge-ships and foreign missions, bursting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

    Quotations 1919

  • They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face post-offices, land offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, charge-ships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands ....

    The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

  • Collectorships of ports, marshalships and numerous positions of honor have all along been held by Negroes.

    The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Robert E. [Illustrator] Bell 1902

  • They have seen in his round, jolly fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

    Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln 1897

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