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Avon

noun

A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn. Synonym: River Avon.

A river in central England that flows through Stratford-on-Avon and empties into the Severn. Synonyms: River Avon, Upper Avon, Upper Avon River.

A county in southwestern England.

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"Avon" Quotes from Famous Books

... century ago there was hanging a code of laws in a barber's shop in Stratford-on-Avon, which the possessor mounted when he was an apprentice some fifty years previously. His master was in business as a barber at the time of the Garrick Jubilee in 1769, and he asserted that the list ...

— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews

... servants were harnessing Old Clay, we went to see a new bridge, which had recently been erected over the Avon River. "That," said he, "is a splendid thing. A New Yorker built it, and the folks in ...

— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... him an unfailing attraction. With pictures of these, for the most part, he filled the pages of the Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hall, 1822. Delightful as are these English sketches, in which the author conducts his reader to Windsor Castle, or Stratford-on-Avon, or the Boar's Head Tavern, or sits beside him on the box of the old English stage-coach, or shares with him the Yule-tide cheer at the ancient English country-house, their interest has somewhat faded. The pathos of the Broken Heart and the Pride of the Village, ...

— Initial Studies in American Letters • Henry A. Beers

... on the hillside back of Dove Cottage, Keswick, where Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy listened for the coming of this "darling of the spring"; in the willows overhanging Shakespeare's Avon; from the favorite haunts ...

— Bird Neighbors • Neltje Blanchan

... how earnestly Would I have pleaded for thee! thou hadst been Still the companion of my boyish sports; And as I roamed o'er Avon's woody cliffs, From many a day-dream has thy short, quick bark Recalled my wandering soul. I have beguiled Often the melancholy hours at school, Soured by some little tyrant, with the thought Of distant home, and I remembered then Thy faithful fondness; for ...

— Voices for the Speechless • Abraham Firth

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