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Oregonian   /ˌɔrəgˈoʊniən/   Listen
Oregonian

noun
1.
A native or resident of Oregon.  Synonym: Beaver.






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"Oregonian" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Noenstoeki or Nestuccas Dialect of the Selish family. 10 ll. 4^o. Collected in 1877 from an Indian called "Jack", of Salmon River, Oregonian Coast. On ...
— Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology. (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (Pages 553-578)) • James Constantine Pilling

... the old Eastern, pre-Revolutionary America that people left behind when they shoved off toward the Ohio and the cotton South and the plains and the Rockies and the Pacific. A reasonably conscious Oregonian or Iowan or Texan seeing it for the first time knows that a part of what he is was sculptured there. Its map is textured with a richness of names that call up remembrance of what Americans used to be like and ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... An Oregonian returning East, who met two of the more fortunate of these handcart parties, gave this description to the Huron (Ohio) ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... this time saying that "Miss Anthony had renounced woman suffrage." It was started doubtless by some one who supposed her to be so narrow as to abandon a great principle because her brother had been defeated in a city where women had the suffrage. The Portland Oregonian having used this alleged renunciation as the basis for a leading editorial, the ladies of Tacoma, Wash., where women had been arbitrarily disfranchised by the supreme court, sent a telegram to Miss Anthony asking if the rumor were true. She telegraphed in reply: "Report false; am stronger ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... miraculous. After a few months on the program one ninety year old man, an independent-minded Oregonian farmer, reported that he began awakening with an erection every morning; unfortunately, his 89 year old cranky and somewhat estranged wife, who would not take vitamins, did not appreciate this youthfulness. A few months later (he had a small farm) he planted a holly orchard. Most of you ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon



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