Louisville
['lu:ivil]
Definition
(noun.) the largest city in Kentucky; located in north central Kentucky on the Ohio river; site of the Kentucky Derby.
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Examples
- I could not get Louisville, and the cipher message began to come. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I called for about twenty minutes and notified them that I could not get Louisville. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After the exposition closed the outfit was taken during the same year to the exposition at Louisville, Kentucky, where it was also successful, carrying a large number of passengers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This was one aspect of life as it presented itself to the sensitive and observant young operator in Louisville. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Drifting after a time from Louisville, Edison made his way as far north as Detroit, but, like the famous Duke of York, soon made his way back again. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He walked over to me, and said: 'Young man, I want you to work the Louisville wire nights; your salary will be $125. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was obliged to go to St. Louis to take a steamer for Louisville or Cincinnati, or the first steamer going up the Ohio River to any point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As a matter of fact, the conditions at Louisville at that time were not much better than they had been at Memphis. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We reached Louisville after night and, if I remember rightly, in a cold, drizzling rain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One day he came into the operating-room, and passing a table he heard Louisville calling Cincinnati. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edison seems on the whole to have been fairly comfortable and happy in Louisville, surrounding himself with books and experimental apparatus, and even inditing a treatise on electricity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Stanton dismissed the special train that had brought him to Indianapolis, and accompanied me to Louisville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had left Louisville the second time, and went home to see my parents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I kept at it for about fifteen minutes longer, and notified them that there was still no answer from Louisville. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Louisville, said Haley. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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