Frankfort
['fræŋkfət]
Definition
(noun.) the capital of Kentucky; located in northern Kentucky.
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Examples
- Among these is Hartman Schapper's book published at Frankfort, in 1548. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The peace of Frankfort was a Hohenzollern peace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1848 all Germany, including, of course, German Austria, was for a time united under the Frankfort parliament. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The peace of Frankfort had left Germany Prussianized and united, the most formidable of all the Great Powers of Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There had been a brief all-German parliament at Frankfort in 1848, which was overthrown in 1849 by the Prussian monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then young Philip Reis of Frankfort, Germany, attempted to put all these theories into an apparatus to reproduce speech, but did not quite succeed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This treaty of Berlin was the second main factor, the peace of Frankfort being the first, in bringing about the great war of 1914-18. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In reality it was not the way, although a monument erected to his memory at Frankfort styles him the inventor of the telephone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Rodger