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Houston

noun

The largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863). Synonyms: Sam Houston, Samuel Houston.

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"Houston" Quotes from Famous Books

... these Mexican spurs with a wheel in them as big as a silver dollar, and the men held the horse by the bridle while dad got on, and I must say he got on like he knew how. He asked which was the road to Houston, and we started out ...

— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck

... fought the decisive battle of San Jacinto, in which Santa Anna with 1500 men was defeated by 800 Texans under Sam Houston. On the next day General Santa Anna was captured. He was compelled to acknowledge the independence of Texas, but the people of Mexico refused to ratify his act. Nonetheless serious hostilities against ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... tell you, Miss Florence. I've lived ever since I was a kid with a man named Tim Bolton. He keeps a saloon on the Bowery, near Houston Street. It's a tough place, I tell you. I've got a bed in one corner—it's tucked away in a closet ...

— Adrift in New York - Tom and Florence Braving the World • Horatio Alger

... of whom the present genus has been originally named by Dr. HOUSTON, was an ingenious English Botanist, cotemporary with, and the friend of PETIVER; his name is often mentioned in the Synopsis of Mr. RAY and his Hortus Siccus, or dried collection of British plants, preserved ...

— The Botanical Magazine, Vol. V - Or, Flower-Garden Displayed • William Curtis

... The English state of mind was unlimited astonishment. There was an enormous sale of any German books that seemed likely to illuminate the mystery of this amazing concentration of hostility; the works of Bernhardi, Treitschke, Nietzsche, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, became the material of countless articles and interminable discussions. One saw little clerks on the way to the office and workmen going home after their work earnestly reading these remarkable writers. They were asking, just as Mr. Britling was ...

— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

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