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Lexington

noun

Town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought.

A city in eastern Kentucky; noted for raising thoroughbred horses.

The first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775). Synonyms: Concord, Lexington and Concord.

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... there but a sick carcass that I'm pretty tired of looking after," he went on, wearily. "I reckon I might as well see the fun through if I never set a hoof on old Plymouth Rock again. My granddaddy was a minute-man at Lexington. Say"—he paused, and his sober face turned sad—"if all the bean-eaters who claim their grandpas were minute-men tell the truth, there wasn't no glory in winning at Lexington, there was such a tremendous sight of 'em. ...

— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter

... of the night, when the dead-lamp burned dimly at the bottom of the alley, a policeman brought to Police Headquarters a wailing child, an outcast found in the area of a Lexington Avenue house by a citizen, who handed it over to the police. Until its cries were smothered in the police nursery upstairs with the ever ready bottle, they reached the bereaved mother in Cat Alley and made her tears drop faster. As the dead-wagon drove away ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... mother almost as much as it pleased the daughter, and she answered, "She looks like one of the Radburns of Lexington, but I think ...

— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

... Crook took the ground that special evangelistic agencies are not necessary, and that the work is more permanent and successful when performed through the regular church channels. Rev. J. Selleck, of Lexington avenue church, had sent about sixty of his members as singers and ushers, and had not only received not a single convert from that place into his church, but had been unable to gather in the members he gave them, who were still running here and there after sensations! ...

— The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church • G. H. Gerberding

... stopping often to give the hand of welcome to a guest. The people of New Salem were in their best clothes. The women wore dresses of new calico—save Mrs. Dr. Allen, who wore a black silk dress which had come with her from her late home in Lexington. Bim Kelso came in a dress of red muslin trimmed with white lace. Ann Rutledge also wore a red dress and came with Abe. The latter was rather grotesque in his new linsey trousers, of a better length than the former pair, but ...

— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller

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