forty-niner
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Kuchan, who’s based in Del Mar, said it’s outside his normal listing area, but he’s leaning into the forty-niner history and the gold rush potential to market the property.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024
The late Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph, grizzly forty-niner, poker player, breeder of race horses and cattle, owned a little newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, which he regarded as a worthless joke.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Old forty-niner, this beats all I ever saw!"
From The Border Legion by Grey, Zane
"Hard luck," sympathized the old man, "coming near to being a forty-niner and missing it."
From The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks by Gray, Mabel Thayer
A forty-niner's a forty-niner, and a man that came in fifty—well, he might as well have come in sixty or seventy, or even in the twentieth century.
From The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks by Gray, Mabel Thayer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
