Sentence examples for peculiar institutions from inspiring English sources

One answer is that peculiar institutions can tell us a lot about more run-of-the-mill ones.

The medical college indicated that they "wouldn't mind swapping the bones with his family as mastodons are scarcer than men in these peculiar institutions" (New York Times 1856).

The same is true of Obama and the civil rights movement, of course — the difference being that the "peculiar institution" was, in all its awful peculiarity, peculiar to the United States.

Belsen was a peculiar institution.

The White House Correspondents Associationn dinner is a peculiar institution.

No "peculiar institution," no hideous Civil War and appalling aftermath.

But an account of the peculiar institution is obligatory, before we get to the peculiar people.

Actually, Providence Plantations has no relation to that peculiar institution of the South.

But Iowa's real comparative advantage is its second peculiar institution, its redistricting law.

All my kindred were strongly opposed to Slavery, the "peculiar institution" of the South.

Yes No." About the peculiar institution we all have a right to mourn.