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Mississippian

noun

From 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects. Synonyms: Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period, Missippian period.

A native or resident of Mississippi.

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"Mississippian" Quotes from Famous Books

... lynching, properly so-called. One could not imagine an actual lynching at, say, Atlantic City, with ten or fifteen bands playing, blind pigs in operation up every alley, a theatre in every block or two, and the boardwalk swarming with ladies of joy. Even a Mississippian, transported to such scenes, succumbs to the atmosphere of pleasure, and so has no seizures of moral rage against the poor darkey. Lynching, in brief, is a phenomenon of isolated and stupid communities, ...

— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... how it is," said a Mississippian one day; "we expected to whip you without the slightest trouble. We threw the war into the Border States to keep it off our soil. Mississippi was very earnest for the Rebellion when Kentucky was the battle-ground. We no more expected you would come here, ...

— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

... there was offered against purchasable objects the more rapid the increase became. Cloth which heretofore brought fifteen to eighteen francs a yard rose to one hundred twenty-five francs a yard. In a cook-shop a "Mississippian," bidding against a nobleman for a fowl, ran the price up ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various