Plymouth

Examples

• I had said to Halleck that Plymouth and Washington, North Carolina, were unnecessary to hold. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the patents of Sir Waiter Raleigh, to the London and Plymouth companies, to the council of Plymouth, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In 1639, nineteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims on the bleak rock at Plymouth, they set up a printing press at Cambridge, Mass. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She observed in a low voice, to her mother, that they were probably going down to Mr. Pratt's, near Plymouth. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The Hindoos joined us at Plymouth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Inquiries made at Plymouth proved that they had sailed, forty-eight hours previously, in the BEWLEY CASTLE, East Indiaman, bound direct to Bombay. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Shortly a supplementary program was issued which set forth that the Plymouth Collection of Hymns would be used on board the ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The devotions consisted only of two hymns from the Plymouth Collection and a short prayer, and seldom occupied more than fifteen minutes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Dan said: All he wants now is a Plymouth Collection. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The memory of the Pilgrims can not perish while Plymouth Rock remains to us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The influence of my family being local, it is their wish that Mr. Micawber should go down to Plymouth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He decided to take it to London, and drove it himself to Plymouth, from which port it was to be carried by sea. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He is a Fellow of Plymouth College there. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He looked rather distressed as he added, that he had been staying with some friends near Plymouth. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Surely I met you in Plymouth at a garden-party some little time ago, Mrs. Straker? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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