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Long Beach

noun

A city in southern California located on 8.5 miles of Pacific beachfront; was a resort until oil was discovered in 1921.

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"Long beach" Quotes from Famous Books

... got a letter from a frien' o' mine in Gainesville, Mississippi. He had a job for me on a boat, haulin' lumber up the coast to Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, an' all them coast towns. I worked out o' Gainesville on this boat for 'bout two year. I lost track o' my family then an' never ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Mississippi Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... to write the story four years later, when we were settled for the winter in our flat on Central Park, and as I was a year in doing it, with other things, I must have taken the unfinished manuscript to and from Magnolia, Massachusetts, and Long Beach, Long Island, where I spent the following summer. It was first serialized in Harper's Weekly and in the London Illustrated News, as well as in an Australian newspaper—I forget which one; and it was published as a completed book ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... of June. On the long beach is strewn the water-soaked cargo of the wrecked scow, the abomination of desolation. Mrs. Harding, although all of her personal belongings and her "special orders" are ruined, smiles bravely. It is ...

— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... I am compelled to call it," said Jurgen, aloud, just as he noticed there were two other men on this long beach. ...

— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell

... so glad on Aunt Melissa's account. It's much better to see the ocean from a long beach than ...

— Suburban Sketches • W.D. Howells