blue-backed

• His "blue-backed speller" would go on to sell some 100 million copies by the end of the 19th century. —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
• His “blue-backed speller†would go on to sell some 100 million copies by the end of the 19th century. “Children grew up to be Americans as opposed to British subjects, †said Harlow Giles Unger, who wrote a book on Webster in 1998. “I would call him the father of American education. †—  News from www.pantagraph.com
• And now we are up to the final year, preparing for the Bac, with copies of blue-backed BALISES, guides to Les Châtiments and La Peau de Chagrin. —  Jihad Watch
• Webster's blue-backed spelling-book, the palladium of Southern education at that epoch. —  The House Behind the Cedars
• "The blue-backed speller is the best cure for crime in the mountains that I know of." —  Judith of the Cumberlands

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