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Chesapeake Bay
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  • CHESAPEAKE BAY forms the western boundary of the section of Maryland which is sometimes called Tidewater Maryland, sometimes called the Eastern Shore.†   (source)
  • Anyway, you can't compare sailing on Lake Michigan with sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.†   (source)
  • Going down their east coast, we give treatment to two Delaware Bay cities, then two on Chesapeake Bay, one being of max historical and sentimental importance.†   (source)
  • The KEWs headed for Earth were going to leave craters deeper than Chesapeake Bay.†   (source)
  • So somehow Leslie was transformed into Maria Hunt, with whom I lay tangled on a sandy beach of the Chesapeake Bay at high noon in summertime; in my fancy her frantic eyes rolled up beneath the lids and she chewed through the lobe of my ear.†   (source)
  • At that moment she was a young girl standing on a wharf at Merry Point, Virginia, waiting for the Chesapeake Bay steamer with her father, who had been dead sixty-one years.†   (source)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt thinks he can control the whole Chesapeake Bay?†   (source)
  • I risked loosening the thermos cap a little more, and a fresh burst of wind sent us rocketing around the northern tip of Virginia Beach into Chesapeake Bay.†   (source)
  • Forward he could see the lights of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, but there were no moving automobile lights.†   (source)
  • On Friday, October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, by Chesapeake Bay, the British General Cornwallis had surrendered his army to a combined American and French force under Washington and Rochambeau.†   (source)
  • We were able to get in a day's shooting on your Chesapeake Bay, the Eastern Shore, I believe you call it."†   (source)
  • And he would serenade the oysters of Chesapeake Bay with the hymns the brothers Wesley had written to bring sinners to repentance and praise.†   (source)
  • "Call," I would say, watching dawn break crimson over the Chesapeake Bay, "I hope I have a sky like this the day I get married.†   (source)
  • Anyway, before I could start at the school, they sent us away on a training cruise in Chesapeake Bay.†   (source)
  • On September 5, 1781, under the Count de Grasse, it took part in the Battle of Chesapeake Bay.†   (source)
  • And how shall I describe my sensations when we were fairly sailing on Chesapeake Bay?†   (source)
  • Only as the local train shambled into the low-forested clayland of Westmoreland County, did he feel once more identified with his surroundings; at the station he saw a star he knew, and a cold moon bright over Chesapeake Bay; he heard the rasping wheels of buckboards turning, the lovely fatuous voices, the sound of sluggish primeval rivers flowing softly under soft Indian names.†   (source)
  • He was generally called Captain Anthony—a title which, I presume, he acquired by sailing a craft on the Chesapeake Bay.†   (source)
  • Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay, whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe.†   (source)
  • The plan we finally concluded upon was, to get a large canoe belonging to Mr. Hamilton, and upon the Saturday night previous to Easter holidays, paddle directly up the Chesapeake Bay.†   (source)
  • Another time mackerel-taking, Voracious, mad for the hook, near the surface, they seem to fill the water for miles; Another time fishing for rock-fish in Chesapeake bay, I one of the brown-faced crew; Another time trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body, My left foot is on the gunwale, my right arm throws far out the coils of slender rope, In sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions.†   (source)
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