Lancaster
[læŋkәstә]
Definition
(noun.) the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose.
(noun.) a city in northwestern England.
Checked by Annabelle--From WordNet
Examples
- I am sorry, Lancaster, but the berth is full. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Quicksilver Bob he was called as a boy in Lancaster, because he used to buy all that metal he could for experiments. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There was a factory in Lancaster where arms were being made for the Continental troops, and Quicksilver Bob was given the run of the place. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- These sketches gave him a local reputation, and his friends were not surprised when at seventeen he left Lancaster to seek his fortune as a painter of portraits and miniatures in Philadelphia. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A number of Indians had resided in the county of Lancaster, and conducted themselves uniformly as friends to the white inhabitants. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He had been taught drawing by Major André, when the latter was a prisoner of war in the little Pennsylvania town of Lancaster. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He obeyed, and took the tripod recently vacated by Lord Lancaster Stiltstalking. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Lancaster, April 26th, 1753. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been prepared. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- An instance of this occurred at the treaty of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, anno 1744, between the government of Virginia and the Six Nations. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- James Lancaster. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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