Augusta
[ɔ:'gʌstə]
Definition
(noun.) a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments.
(noun.) the capital of the state of Maine.
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Examples
- The cavalry, however, were to threaten Charleston on the right, and Augusta on the left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- My sister Augusta is married now to a man much older-looking than papa. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He called her 'Augusta. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Bragg had now been sent to Augusta with some troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Miss Augusta ought not to have been noticed for the next six months; and Miss Sneyd, I believe, has never forgiven me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Shall we walk, Augusta? Jane Austen. Emma.
- Garrard had been sent out with his cavalry to get upon the railroad east of Atlanta and to cut it in the direction of Augusta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You could then move as proposed in your telegram, so as to threaten Macon and Augusta equally. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Augusta, he said, turning pale and laying down his fork, have you any other reason for thinking that Bencomb is less to be relied on than he was? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Slocum was in command, and threatened Augusta as the point to which he was moving, but he was to turn off and meet the right wing at Milledgeville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Good-bye, Mr. Brocklehurst; remember me to Mrs. and Miss Brocklehurst, and to Augusta and Theodore, and Master Broughton Brocklehurst. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At any rate that's what Augusta and my daughters-in-law think. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The condition will be filled by holding Savannah and Augusta, or by holding any other port to the east of Savannah and Branchville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Miss Augusta should have been with her governess. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And I suppose Augusta and Welland pulled long faces, and behaved as if the end of the world had come? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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