Citations:Washington

English citations of Washington

Attributive use, referring to George Washington

• 1860, Harper's Magazine^[1], page 475:

  A copper piece, bearing the date 1792, and commonly known as a Washington cent, is found in some collections and highly prized.

• 1921, Wallace Nutting, Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720, page 342:

  And the original buyer at auction valued the piece merely as a Washington relic.

• 2000, Sandra M. Gustafson, Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early America, page 219:

  Gilbert Stuart's famous Lansdowne portrait offers perhaps the most ambiguous instance of textual imagery in a Washington portrait.