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March 17

noun
1.
A day observed by the Irish to commemorate the patron saint of Ireland.  Synonyms: Saint Patrick's Day, St Patrick's Day.






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"March 17" Quotes from Famous Books



... representing all the states, met at Berlin in May, 1868. Before that time, treaties of offensive and defensive alliance had been made between the North German Confederation and Wuertemberg, Baden, and Bavaria. They were published on March 17, 1867. ...
— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher

... Fare Thee Well (March 17) and A Sketch (March 29, 1816), which have hitherto been entitled Domestic Pieces, or Poems on His Own Circumstances, I have ventured to rename Poems of the Separation. Of secondary importance as poems or works of art, they stand out by themselves ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron

... ground of the transaction, its effect, and its clandestine nature, are in the letters bearing date March 17, 1769. After receiving a more full account, on the 23d March, 1770, they state, that "Messrs. John Pybus, John Call, and James Bourchier, as trustees for themselves and others of the Nabob's private creditors, had proved a deed of assignment upon the Nabob and his son of FIFTEEN ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... This passage, to the end of the paragraph, appears in Theobald's letter to Warburton of March 17, 1729-30 (Nichols, ii., p. 566). In the same letter he had expressed his doubts as to whether he should include this passage in his proposed pamphlet against Pope, as the notes to the Odyssey were written by Broome. He had cast aside these scruples now. The preface does ...
— Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare • D. Nichol Smith



Words linked to "March 17" :   day, St Patrick's Day



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