Cairo
['kaiərəu]
Definition
(noun.) the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs.
(noun.) a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
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Examples
- I left Cairo within an hour or two after the receipt of this dispatch, going by rail via Indianapolis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- While at Cairo I had watched with very great interest the operations of the Army of the Potomac, looking upon that as the main field of the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Arriving at Columbus on the 16th I reported by telegraph: Your dispatch from Cairo of the 3d directing me to report from Cairo was received at 11. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We shall lose a fine opportunity if I put off going to Cairo, and I am very much afraid I must go, Handel, when you most need me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- From the time of leaving Cairo I was singularly unfortunate in not receiving dispatches from General Halleck. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We took the cars and came up here to ancient Cairo, which is an Oriental city and of the completest pattern. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Left the same day with staff and headquarters and am here en route for Cairo. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The commissary general of prisoners reported having issued rations to 14,623 Fort Donelson prisoners at Cairo, as they passed that point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Smith, a most accomplished soldier, reported at Cairo and was assigned to the command of the post at the mouth of the Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The day after I assumed command at Cairo a man came to me who said he was a scout of General Fremont. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had been a brigadier, in command at Cairo, while I was mustering officer at Springfield without any rank. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Dunn of my staff to Cairo, the nearest point where the telegraph could be reached, with a dispatch to the general-in-chief. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I returned to Cairo very much crestfallen. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Halleck commenced his efforts in all quarters to get reinforcements to forward to me immediately on my departure from Cairo. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Cairo was to become my headquarters when the expedition terminated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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