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Manitoba

noun

One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.

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"Manitoba" Quotes from Famous Books

... Buck's. It belonged to him. There isn't a skirt-buyer in the Middle West that doesn't dream of him all night and push Featherlooms in the store all day. Emma, I'm old and fat and fifty, but when I had dinner with him at the Manitoba House that evening, I caught myself making eyes at him, knowing that every woman in the dining-room would have given her front teeth to be ...

— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber

... dense smoke. One evening Mr. Hinckley and another of our party went fishing without veils. They returned with their necks behind swollen up as if with goitres or Kropfe. I knew a young Englishman who with friends, somewhere beyond Manitoba, encountered such a storm of mosquitos that their oxen were killed, and the party saved themselves by riding away on horseback. ...

— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... not now. I live on a farm in the homestead district and we have to do all our own work. I tell all the women I see what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound does for me. I think it saves me from going to a doctor and is the best medicine women can take." MRS. WILLIAM COULTAS, Fork River, Manitoba. ...

— Food and Health • Anonymous

Words linked to "Manitoba" : Canada, Winnipeg, Canadian province, Churchill, Lake Winnipeg