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  • Anza waited for him, surprised him on the trail in Colorado near a place that is still known as Greenhorn Peak, and in a piece of brilliant battlefield strategy, engineered one of the great Spanish victories in North America.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • The novel's narrator has been recast as a young whaling novice, called Greenhorn, who observes the action and finds a friend in Queequeg, the pagan harpooner; their unlikely bond is another, somewhat sentimentalized, level of the plot.

    Taming the Whale 2010

  • "Greenhorn" At least I determined not to be so green as to bind myself to an arbitrary Rocky Mountain

    Journal of a Trapper 1914

  • "Greenhorn" hat sent to him from Sig who learns Moy sevretly has an MBA from MIT. guest, Apr 23, 2009 12: 01PM

    Dealbreaker 2009

  • "Greenhorn") -- or even knowledge of what they are.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

  • "Greenhorn," said Jack, with an air of angry reproach, as he laid his hand upon my shoulder -- "why do you so continually avoid me?

    My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. George Thompson

  • Greenhorn” raises himself from the coffin, there is a long pause, and suddenly you see where this is going.

    Moby-Dick premieres in Dallas 2010

  • Greenhorn real estate investors, however, are more likely to be saturated with advertisements claiming just the opposite: that it is easy to make money in real estate.

    Ten Habits Of Highly Effective Real Estate Investors 2010

  • Greenhorn real estate investors, however, are more likely to be saturated with advertisements claiming just the opposite: that it is easy to make money in real estate.

    Ten Habits Of Highly Effective Real Estate Investors 2010

  • Stephen Costello, the excellent young lyric tenor singing Greenhorn, got several fine showpieces, particularly his Act II musing on Ahab, "Human madness is a cunning and most feline thing."

    Taming the Whale 2010

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