Lexington

Examples

• At Lexington there were British reinforcements and two guns, and after a brief rest the retreat was resumed in better order. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His animals, too, had been starved, and their carcasses lined the road from Cumberland Gap, and far back towards Lexington, Ky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Alexander Graham, of Lexington, Virginia, applied for patents on this type of extinguisher a number of times between 1844 and 1849. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This claim to priority was supported by the publication of a description of the machine, and certificate of its use, in the _Union_, a newspaper published at Lexington, Va. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As they entered Lexington at dawn, they saw a little company of men drawn up in military fashion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Having thus successfully executed his instructions, he returned General Burbridge to Lexington and General Gillem to Knoxville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He did advertise in the _Lexington Union_ in September, 1833, offering reapers for sale at fifty dollars; but there were no answers to his advertisements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The town of Lexington lay some eighteen miles south of his home, and he made arrangements with a farmer there, named John Ruff, to give an exhibition of his reaper in the latter’s field. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It was the housekeeper, Mrs. Lexington, who drew the night constable's attention to it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mrs. Lexington is her name--a little, dark, silent person, with suspicious and sidelong eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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