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Long Island Sound   /lɔŋ ˈaɪlənd saʊnd/   Listen
Long Island Sound

noun
1.
A sound between Long Island and Connecticut.





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"Long island sound" Quotes from Famous Books



... appreciated to the full by those who are unacquainted with certain mellow and crumbling towns and hamlets of the New England coast, especially of the warm south coast. Soft mists rise in summer like "rich distilled perfumes" from the warm Gulf Stream off Long Island Sound and drift landward in invisible airy volumes. Suddenly, as at a given signal, the sky becomes troubled, grows dun: trembling dew-specks glister upon the leaves, and in a few moments the gray fog starts out of the air on every side and clings to tree, crag and house ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various


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