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  • The Continental Army—not the Hudson River or the possession of New York or Philadelphia—was the key to victory.†   (source)
  • There wasn't too much else on the road what with it being a Saturday and he reckoned he'd be better keeping on up 87 till it hit 90, cross the Hudson River there and head on down to Chatham from the north.†   (source)
  • Maybe he decided to drive into the Hudson River.†   (source)
  • Then we passed the gristmill built by my great-grandfather Tweedy around 1850 on the Hudson River, and rattled through the cool of the covered bridge he built across the river to join his land together.†   (source)
  • Off to the right, the Hudson River lay blue-green and quiet, glinting under the sun.†   (source)
  • Hudson River was hit on schedule.†   (source)
  • He paused, and then he said, "She went everywhere she could along the eastern seaboard, but all it amounted to was just a few of the small ports and harbours, Delaware Bay, the Hudson River, and, of course, New London.†   (source)
  • We are going to a place up the Hudson River called Albany.†   (source)
  • Typhon stepped into the Hudson River and barely sank to midcalf.†   (source)
  • A breezehad sprung up, whipping flecks of white on the Hudson River.†   (source)
  • Or he offered to take Trish to work and drove them both into the Hudson River.†   (source)
  • A column of storm was approaching the Hudson River, moving rapidly over the Jersey shore.†   (source)
  • I was sorry to say good-bye to the Hudson River.†   (source)
  • All around Typhon, the Hudson River erupted, churning with forty-foot waves.†   (source)
  • There were woods to our left, the Hudson River to our right, and the driver seemed to be veering toward the river.†   (source)
  • This section of Twenty-Fourth, less than two blocks from Chelsea Piers and the Hudson River, was more of a back alley.†   (source)
  • Memories of the grand, gray arches of the George Washington Bridge floated into my mind, like a cathedral spanning the Hudson River, and then the feeling of relief after they let us through.†   (source)
  • They reminded Clary of the big old mansions along the Hudson River, north of Manhattan, where rich New Yorkers had spent their summers hundreds of years ago.†   (source)
  • When, on July 12, with the wind and tide in their favor, the British sent two men-of-war up the Hudson River to demonstrate who had control, there was nothing to stop them.†   (source)
  • Some days later, after Martha Washington arrived, they would establish a country residence at a beautiful estate overlooking the Hudson River, the Abraham Mortier house (later known as Richmond Hill) two miles north, beyond the city limits.†   (source)
  • He resolves to save her from this squalid life and more or less buys her from the madam for an enormous sum of money and takes her to his hilltop mansion overlooking the Hudson River, where he brings in teams of doctors, tutors, psychologists and nutritionists and where he watches the girl develop intellectually and grow into a healthy young woman who speaks four languages and shows a talent for the oboe.†   (source)
  • In the summer of 1804, on the banks of the Hudson River at Weehawken, New Jersey, Alexander Hamilton was fatally wounded in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr.†   (source)
  • If everything went as planned, we were about to lay another egg in Hudson River, then targets in succession for three hours across that continent—"in succession" because Junior could not handle simultaneous hits; Mike had planned accordingly.†   (source)
  • It was on the edge of the Hudson River, and as we rolled down the hill into the town we suddenly could see the water.†   (source)
  • Fort Ticonderoga had fallen, abandoned by its American garrison, and enemy troops were pressing steadily on, hacking their way through the wilderness to reach the Hudson River.†   (source)
  • Central to all that had to be taken into consideration was the Hudson River, which loomed as large in everyone's calculations as it had for nearly a year, from the time Washington first dispatched Charles Lee south from Cambridge to take charge of fortifying New York—the Hudson, key to the whole British strategy.†   (source)
  • At New York, horses and riders would be ferried over the Hudson River to New Jersey, where they would travel "as fine a road as ever trod," in the opinion of John Adams, whose first official position in Braintree had been surveyor of roads.†   (source)
  • New York had "vast importance," he wrote, because control of its harbor could mean control of the Hudson River and thus the whole Hudson—Lake Champlain corridor north to Canada, which if seized by the enemy could isolate New England from the other colonies—which, in fact, was exactly the British intention.†   (source)
  • I could see almost everything from here—the East River and the Hudson River carving the shape of Manhattan, the grid of streets, the lights of skyscrapers, the dark stretch of Central Park in the north.†   (source)
  • There would be a lot of exciting things on the trip—meeting my cousins and seeing the Hudson River which they said was a mile wide, and watching the boats sail up and down it.†   (source)
  • Peekskill was on the Hudson River.†   (source)
  • All of that part of Westchester County, from the Connecticut border over to the Hudson River, had gotten to be a kind of no man's land, with roving bands wandering around plundering people on the excuse that they were part of the war.†   (source)
  • We came in along the Hudson River and I stared at the sweep of clean-kept homes and grounds.†   (source)
  • The decks teemed with kids, wild with excitement, racing up and down and trying to fall into the Hudson River.†   (source)
  • We sailed on the Hudson River and wandered about on its green banks, of which Bryant loved to sing.†   (source)
  • This is the Hudson River Sporting and Yacht Club.†   (source)
  • The metropolis, barely glimpsed, made little impression on him, except for the sense of cleanliness he drew from the tall white buildings seen from a Hudson River steamboat in the early morning.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hammond could not have been driven to cross the Hudson River; her un-American idea of the wilderness westward was that Indians still chased buffalo on the outskirts of Chicago.†   (source)
  • She had heard of the Hudson River, the great city of New York, and now she looked out, filling her mind with the wonder of it.†   (source)
  • Thousands of handkerchiefs were waving above these tightly packed masses, hailing the Abraham Lincoln until it reached the waters of the Hudson River, at the tip of the long peninsula that forms New York City.†   (source)
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  • Looking toward the Hudson, I saw the top of a sailboat pass by.†   (source)
  • A few days later, the biggest tornado ever spotted in the Hudson Valley touched down only fifty miles from Yancy Academy.†   (source)
  • In the mornings a few times a week he gets up early and goes running before work with Gerald along the Hudson, down to Battery Park City and back.†   (source)
  • I finally decided to treat myself to a long stroll through all of New York: from the waterfront north to Chambers Street, and a side-to-side wander from the East River to the North River, which some had taken to calling the Hudson.†   (source)
  • The Hudson was lovely but the Shannon sings.†   (source)
  • On the Hudson ice produced the earliest halt to navigation since 1880.†   (source)
  • Mark Twain gives us the Mississippi, Hart Crane the Hudson-East-Mississippi/generic-American, and T. S. Eliot the Thames.†   (source)
  • The Hudson Foods outbreak revealed many of the flaws in the current USDA policies on recall.†   (source)
  • She suddenly leaped at him with that limber ferocity, and although he felt certain she meant to hurt him as she had before, possibly because she couldn't get at the dirty birdie of a scriptwriter who had cheated Rocket Man out of the Hudson before it went over the cliff, he did not move at all , he could see the seeds of her current instability in the window of past she had just opened for him, but he was also awed by it , the injustice she felt was, in spite of its childishness,…†   (source)
  • If the weather holds out, he'll be flying an exhibition this afternoon, for everyone to see, at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration.†   (source)
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  • Outside the train, the Hudson shimmered, and the trees were the redbrown colors of fall.†   (source)
  • He had four sons and a daughter, and he wanted to prepare all of them as heirs to his empire, but by a series of coincidences that were common in the novels of the day, but that no one believed in real life, his four sons died, one after the other, as they rose to positions of authority, and his daughter had no river vocation whatsoever and preferred to die watching the boats on the Hudson from a window fifty meters high.†   (source)
  • The Hudson went crazy on the hill.†   (source)
  • There'll be trouble all the way to the Hudson."†   (source)
  • She turns her head away slowly, facing out beyond the bridge cables, out to Manhattan and the Hudson.†   (source)
  • One morning I took a long walk uptown to the 79th Street Marina on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • It reminds me of the Hudson, and my schooling and all.†   (source)
  • The feel of empty streets after midnight and the wind off the Hudson as he walks east.†   (source)
  • Michael Horowitz, an agitator for humanitarian causes based at the Hudson Institute in Washington, has rallied religious conservatives to back an initiative to repair obstetric fistulas.†   (source)
  • The sun is starting to dip to the west, a bright blaring ball tilting toward the Hudson and leaving a collage of peach and purple streaks across the sky.†   (source)
  • Then, too, there was the Hudson Institute study.†   (source)
  • The expectation of another, larger strike by the British at New York or up the Hudson persisted.†   (source)
  • The East River, meeting the Hudson near its mouth, is quiet and motionless as the mist.†   (source)
  • The river was the Hudson.†   (source)
  • It was a room in the house of the old Taggart estate on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • What, like'n the Hudson?†   (source)
  • The wolf turned out to be a cocker spaniel belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company manager.†   (source)
  • Then they stumbled up the steps to the Hudson Hotel.†   (source)
  • Rumor had it that a man named Fulton had a working steam-powered boat plying up and down the Hudson--a steamboat that King Charles had been offered, and refused to fund!†   (source)
  • It's a town, just up the Hudson.†   (source)
  • She did the eastern states from Florida to Maine and went right into New York Harbor, right on up the Hudson till she tangled with the wreck of the George Washington Bridge.†   (source)
  • The bearded spirit of the Hudson scoffed.†   (source)
  • The Hudson Institute had been contracted to study possible consequences of Cautery.†   (source)
  • He urged Lee to cross the Hudson with his brigades and join forces before it was too late.†   (source)
  • The great oak tree had stood on a hill over the Hudson, in a lonely spot of the Taggart estate.†   (source)
  • That sand dollar's mine, unless you want me to let all those ships cross the Hudson.†   (source)
  • "I was born on the Hudson, you know," he said, a little later.†   (source)
  • Lou had ridden down to the hospital in the Hudson with Eugene while Oz had stayed behind.†   (source)
  • The Dutch settled most of the land up and down the Hudson.†   (source)
  • The Hudson, in the sharp light of the season, sparkled like an inland sea.†   (source)
  • The tractor was almost on top of the Hudson.†   (source)
  • "I heard the East River is more toxic," I continued, "but the Hudson smells worse.†   (source)
  • They were thrown forward a little when the Hudson came to an abrupt stop.†   (source)
  • The route south to Albany required four crossings of the Hudson.†   (source)
  • Her great-grandmother shifted her focus to the Hudson.†   (source)
  • The long retreat that had begun in New York and continued from the Hudson to the Delaware was over.†   (source)
  • He had also brought a five-gallon can of gas, which he put in the Hudson's fuel tank.†   (source)
  • Henry Knox had managed to escape at the last minute only by seizing a boat on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • He'd made a production out of it, using her birthday as an excuse to take her to a country inn for the weekend, in a town upstate on the banks of the Hudson, the first trip they'd taken together that wasn't to her parents' place in New Jersey, or to Pemberton Road.†   (source)
  • Chuck, Tony, and I had gone outside and battled our way over two blocks to the Chelsea Piers, straining to see into the snowy blackness above the Hudson.†   (source)
  • …been possessed by the Fair if it had been given a site in the beautiful Rock Creek Valley at Washington, of which the Nation is just taking possession for a Park; considering what superb views were presented of the Palisades and up the valley of the Hudson on the one hand, and the waters and varied shores of Long Island Sound on the other, from the site offered for the Fair by New York; considering all this, we cannot but fear that the choice of a site in the rear of the city, utterly…†   (source)
  • The Hudson Foods plant in Columbus, Nebraska, was operating under a HACCP plan in 1997 when it shipped 35 million pounds of potentially tainted meat.†   (source)
  • He climbs down the ladder, tugboat chugs away, and we sail up the Hudson past Manhattan, under the George Washington Bridge, past hundreds of Liberty ships that did their bit in the war, moored now and ready to rot.†   (source)
  • So there we were, Annabeth and Grover and I, walking through the woods along the New Jersey riverbank, the glow of New York City making the night sky yellow behind us, and the smell of the Hudson reeking in our noses.†   (source)
  • From there the river grows into the Hudson and on into the Mississippi, which for Crane metonymically represents all American rivers.†   (source)
  • From our seven-story perch, beautiful late-autumn views of red and gold trees stretched up and down the Hudson, backed by street noise and city skyline.†   (source)
  • The lot number on Harding's package said that the frozen patties had been manufactured on June 5 at the Hudson Foods plant in Columbus, Nebraska.†   (source)
  • The USDA had not only been forced to negotiate the Hudson Foods recall, it had to rely on company officials for information about how much meat needed to be recalled.†   (source)
  • The real disaster only became apparent when they quarantined the island "temporarily," and the world had watched in horror as they saw people drowning and freezing to death as they tried to escape across the Hudson and East Rivers.†   (source)
  • After the Hudson Foods outbreak, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman ended the policy of submitting USDA recall announcements to meatpacking companies for prior approval.†   (source)
  • Brent Wolke, the manager of the Hudson Foods plant in Columbus, and Michael Gregory, the company director of customer relations and quality control, were indicted in December of 1998.†   (source)
  • The recall seemed surprisingly small, considering that the Hudson Foods plant in Columbus, Nebraska, could produce as much as 400,000 pounds of ground beef in a single shift — and that tainted patties had been manufactured, according to the product codes on their boxes, on at least three separate days in June.†   (source)
  • He had rented a proper country seat, Richmond Hill, a mile north of town on a high promontory beside the Hudson, with sweeping views and nearly always a breeze.†   (source)
  • Even in the wintertime, when the rooms at the Hudson were cold and the window by the bed had frost on it, they sweated beer; and they lay on her so heavily that it was difficult to breathe.†   (source)
  • He goes the last four blocks with his head turned away from the wind and the wind is whipping off the Hudson and Manx is walking like a horse with a spooked head.†   (source)
  • Adams interpreted such feints and maneuvers to mean the real objective was the Hudson, where Howe would join forces with Burgoyne, but then Adams decided an invasion of Philadelphia must be the plan after all.†   (source)
  • "The rumor is that we're supposed to be situated to move either west to the Hudson or south to Long Island Sound in case of a British attack either place.†   (source)
  • Kids still swim in the Harlem River in the summer, way uptown where it turns out of the Hudson, and his own boys used to leap off a dock, arms all flung—he sees them momentarily in midair.†   (source)
  • According to the Hudson Institute scenario, there were six possible consequences of American-Russian interaction following this event, and all six led directly to war.†   (source)
  • When he laughed, she thought they were back in the woods by the Hudson: he had not changed and never would.†   (source)
  • Ordered home to Paris, to face charges of misconduct, whichmeant almost certain death by guillotine, Genet chose to stay on in New York, where eventually he married the daughter of George Clinton and settled down to the life of a country gentleman on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • Our service on the Hudson Line is only temporarily suspended and the Unification Board has refused us permission to dismantle the line!†   (source)
  • We parked outside Battery Park, at the lower tip of Manhattan where the Hudson and East Rivers came together and emptied into the bay.†   (source)
  • As a result of the Hudson Institute report, the President and his advisers felt that control of Cautery, and responsibility for it, should remain within political, not scientific, hands.†   (source)
  • They stood looking down the Hudson; they had heard that on clear days one could see New York in the distance.†   (source)
  • Send them out on the Hudson Line, with orders to tear down every foot of copper wire, any copper wire, lights, signals, telephone, everything that's company property.†   (source)
  • Strong posts at Fort Washington and on the opposite side of the Hudson would secure the Hudson corridor.†   (source)
  • The question belonged to the present, but the solemn face came from those days on the hill by the Hudson when he would have understood all that the question meant to her.†   (source)
  • As night fell, they watched a display of fireworks color the sky, and then the group climbed in the Hudson and headed out of town.†   (source)
  • A garden to the rear reached down to the shore of the Hudson and from a rooftop platform and cupola, one could see for miles in every direction.†   (source)
  • She wondered why she felt that she wanted to run, that she should be running; no, not down this street; down a green hillside in the blazing sun to the road on the edge of the Hudson, at the foot of the Taggart estate.†   (source)
  • His gaze on the ceiling of the Hudson, Diamond considered these facts, obviously searching his memory.†   (source)
  • Another fort, to be known as Fort Constitution, was also planned for the opposite side of the Hudson.†   (source)
  • So close were they to the edge that a full third of the Hudson's tires were gripping nothing but the chilly brace of mountain air.†   (source)
  • It was when he inspected a complex system of pulleys which Francisco, aged twelve, had erected to make an elevator to the top of a rock; he was teaching Dagny and Eddie to dive from the rock into the Hudson.†   (source)
  • Far below, on the shore of the Hudson, she saw the road she used to watch for Francisco's carshe saw the cliff over the river, where they climbed to look for the towers of New York-and somewhere beyond the woods were the trails that led to Rockdale Station.†   (source)
  • The road was now dirt, and the Hudson swayed from side to side over this humble pack of shifting earth.†   (source)
  • General Heath and another 3,000 were to guard the Hudson Highlands at Peekskill, New York, thirty miles to the north.†   (source)
  • It was like the moment, years ago, when she had seen him dive first from a rock into the Hudson, had seen him vanish under the black water and had stood, knowing that he would reappear in an instant and that it would then be her turn to follow.†   (source)
  • There were guns along the banks of the Hudson, heavy cannon at old Fort George by the Battery, and more at the Whitehall dock on the East River.†   (source)
  • The boy put his pole and box through the Hudson's open rear window and climbed in the front seat like he owned it, his dog following his relaxed lead.†   (source)
  • This was the Francisco of their childhood, in bearing, in manner, in the unclouded brilliance of his eyes-and she found herself questioning him about his copper mine, as she had questioned him about his industrial projects on their walks on the shore of the Hudson, recapturing the sense of an unobstructed future.†   (source)
  • The Hudson, or North, River was greater still, more than two miles wide, and so, as Lee had acknowledged, impossible to keep closed to the enemy.†   (source)
  • When the Hudson pulled up, the ambulance was still parked in front of the farmhouse, which had a deep, cool porch and shadows elongating across it as the sun rose higher.†   (source)
  • It was for the way you looked that night, for the way you talked about your railroad-for the way you had looked when we tried to see the skyline of New York from the top of a rock over the Hudson-I had to save you, to clear the way for you, to let you find your city-not to let you stumble the years of your life away, struggling on through a poisoned fog, with your eyes still held straight ahead, still looking as they had looked in the sunlight, struggling on to find, at the end of your…†   (source)
  • As Diamond pulled his gear from the back of the Hudson, Lou, who was a little sorry for what she had said, but more curious than sorry, leaned over the seat and whispered to him through the open rear window.†   (source)
  • When approximately 3,000 men under General Sullivan departed by ship up the Hudson, Washington informed Congress he had to have at least 10,000 more.†   (source)
  • Howe and his army were known to have reached Dobbs Ferry on the Hudson, less than ten miles above King's Bridge, and were now moving south.†   (source)
  • But with batteries along the New York shore of the Hudson, the British might think twice before risking their valuable ships.†   (source)
  • By November 12, the day Washington crossed the Hudson, Howe's army was within four miles of King's Bridge.†   (source)
  • Then, returning to New York, he had seen all his arguments for an invasion up the Hudson rejected out of hand by Howe.†   (source)
  • But why their commanders had delayed in crossing the island, why they had not pushed straight on to the Hudson, remained a puzzle.†   (source)
  • Every battery along the Hudson fired away until cannon smoke lay thick and heavy over the city, and the air reeked of gunpowder.†   (source)
  • Magaw's bold response was written in the belief that he and his men could indeed hold out, or if need be, escape across the Hudson after dark.†   (source)
  • On January 9, the expedition pushed on from the eastern shore of the Hudson, with more than a hundred miles still to go.†   (source)
  • Seven thousand troops, much the largest part of the army, were to remain east of the Hudson under General Lee, to check any British move on New England.†   (source)
  • Some of the generals thought the British were headed for Fort Washington, or were bound for the Hudson to board ships and proceed upriver to attack from the rear.†   (source)
  • At midmorning, November 12, at Peekskill, he crossed the Hudson and headed directly south for New Jersey, reaching Fort Lee on November 13—all told, a sixty-five-mile march in three days.†   (source)
  • Three nights later, he sent 4,000 British and Hessian troops under the cover of darkness and drenching rain across the Hudson to land upstream from Fort Lee at a point called Closter.†   (source)
  • As it was, the fire raged up the west side, destroying nearly everything between Broadway and the Hudson, including the infamous Holy Ground, to as far as the open field at King's College.†   (source)
  • The passage of ships on the Hudson was no longer the issue—the obstructions in the North River had proved insufficient—still, "communication" across the river to New Jersey had to be maintained.†   (source)
  • On the morning of Sunday, August 18, taking advantage of a strong northeasterly wind, the Phoenix and the Rose "passed briskly" back down the Hudson to rejoin the fleet.†   (source)
  • The day after brought a "mighty movement" of transports and more flatboats up the East River, while two more frigates, the Repulse and the Pearl, sailed into the Hudson.†   (source)
  • Departing from Cambridge on horseback on November 16, Knox and his brother William had traveled first to New York City, where they made arrangements for military supplies to be sent back to Boston, then pressed northward up the Hudson Valley, at times making forty miles a day.†   (source)
  • In fact, the British had suffered nine seamen killed and considerable damage to their ships, while showing once more in spectacular fashion that the Hudson was undeniably theirs to employ as they wished.†   (source)
  • AT MEETINGS of the British high command, General Henry Clinton had been making a case for an attack at the northern end of York Island, up the Hudson, but in one conference after another found he could get nowhere with William Howe, who had other plans.†   (source)
  • Concerned about the difficulties of clearing the shallows of Sandy Hook and negotiating the East River and the Hudson, Admiral Lord Howe had wisely chosen speed and maneuverability over size and more massive firepower.†   (source)
  • Had the Phoenix and the Rose, with their combined 72 guns, fetched up into the East River as they had done before on the Hudson, Stedman emphasized, any chance of escape would have been cut off "most completely."†   (source)
  • Leading his soldiers through the sweltering afternoon, rugged "Old Put" was at his best, riding up and down the long line exhorting them to stay together and keep moving, to get past the British before they had the island sealed off from the East River to the Hudson.†   (source)
  • By five-thirty they had passed the blasts of cannon from Fort Washington, and by evening they were safely anchored thirty miles above the city in the broadest part of the Hudson, the Tappan Zee at Tarrytown, where their mission was to cut off rebel supplies and rouse local Loyalists.†   (source)
  • The distant roar was an exchange of fire on the other side of York Island, as more of the British fleet, taking advantage of the ideal winds and a running tide, moved into the Hudson, making it appear that the attack was to come there.†   (source)
  • Howe and his generals were entirely satisfied with the day's work, and by nightfall their troops had crossed the middle of the island to the Hudson and pressed north to within striking distance of the rebel lines by the Harlem River.†   (source)
  • But on the morning of November 5, to the complete surprise of the Americans, the whole of the British army was in motion, heading off in another direction, southwest toward the Hudson and King's Bridge.†   (source)
  • AT FIRST CHANCE, early Saturday, November 16, Washington, with Greene, Putnam, and another of his generals, Hugh Mercer of Virginia, again crossed the Hudson, "to determine," as Greene wrote, "what was best to be done."†   (source)
  • The week before, Congress had resolved that, if "practicable," every effort be made to "obstruct effectually" navigation on the Hudson at Fort Washington, but whether this was known in advance of the council of war, or had any bearing on the decision, is not clear.†   (source)
  • The cannon at Red Hook and Governor's Island opened fire, and as the ships swept by lower Manhattan, heading into the mouth of the Hudson, the guns at old Fort George and other shore batteries opened up.†   (source)
  • Even before the successful dash of the Phoenix and the Rose up the Hudson, it had been assumed by many British officers that the assault on New York would be made to the north, and thus the army would advance on the city from the undefended rear, while the Royal Navy let loose with a heavy bombardment from the rivers and harbor.†   (source)
  • Central to all that had to be taken into consideration was the Hudson River, which loomed as large in everyone's calculations as it had for nearly a year, from the time Washington first dispatched Charles Lee south from Cambridge to take charge of fortifying New York—the Hudson, key to the whole British strategy.†   (source)
  • Clearly if two enemy warships with their tenders could pass so swiftly and readily up the Hudson suffering no serious damage from the onshore batteries, then so could ten or twenty warships and transports, or for that matter, an entire British fleet, and by landing an army of 10,000 or more upriver, they could cut off any chance Washington and his forces might have for escape from New York.†   (source)
  • Three of the British warships, Phoenix, Roebuck, and Tartar, weighed anchor and with the advantage of a flood tide and a brisk southwesterly wind, proceeded up the Hudson to force passage beyond Forts Washington and Constitution, where, at enormous effort, the Americans had tried to block the river from shore to shore with sunken hulks and a submerged chain of spike-studded logs.†   (source)
  • Israel Putnam and several thousand of his troops had set off on a forced march up the post road, a route that would have taken them up the east side of the island and straight into the invading British army had Putnam not been convinced by a young aide, twenty-year-old Lieutenant Aaron Burr, to head north by less traveled roads along the Hudson.†   (source)
  • In a letter to Nathanael Greene from White Plains dated November 8, Washington had reasoned, as he might well have earlier: I f we cannot prevent vessels passing up [the Hudson], and the enemy are possessed of the surrounding country, what valuable purpose can it answer to attempt to hold a post from which the expected benefit cannot be had.†   (source)
  • In early June, Knox and Greene rode together to the rugged uppermost end of York Island to survey a craggy ridge 230 feet above the Hudson, the highest point on the island, as the site for still another major defense, and work soon commenced on what was to be called Fort Washington, intended to keep the British navy from coming up the river.†   (source)
  • That same day, at a country estate near Elizabethtown, New Jersey, General William Livingston, a former member of Congress and newly in command of the New Jersey militia, wrote in "utmost haste" to Washington that a spy he had sent to Staten Island had just returned to report that the British were about to attack, both on Long Island and up the Hudson, and that the attack could come any hour, "this night at farthest."†   (source)
  • Al drove in and nosed the Hudson up to the hose.†   (source)
  • The family left and he moved alone into the house on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • Al got out and walked around the nose of the Hudson.†   (source)
  • From Sallisaw to Gore is twenty-one miles and the Hudson was doing thirty-five miles an hour.†   (source)
  • Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel.†   (source)
  • Al had the hood of the Hudson up, and he checked the oil level.†   (source)
  • Wynand thought of a crumbling wall on the edge of the Hudson.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Sanborn wished a French chateau built upon their new estate on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • She did not glance at them as the Hudson went by.†   (source)
  • But there it stands, on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • —and had it assembled again down on the Hudson, and there it stands now, cobbles, church, apple trees, pigsties and all!†   (source)
  • Since spring, he had brought to Roark's office the contracts for a yacht club on the Hudson, an office building, two private residences.†   (source)
  • He could see the distant band of the Hudson at his window sill, with the small streaks of ships moving under his fingertips when he pressed them to the glass.†   (source)
  • # Gail Wynand, aged twelve, stood in the darkness under a broken piece of wall on the shore of the Hudson, one arm swung back, the fist closed, ready to strike, waiting.†   (source)
  • The energy ran through the walls of his office to three points of the city: to the Cord Building, in the center of Manhattan, a tower of copper and glass; to the Aquitania Hotel on Central Park South; and to the Temple on a rock over the Hudson, far north on Riverside Drive.†   (source)
  • After that you'll have a free week, so I want you to go up the Hudson and pay a visit."†   (source)
  • Here in Gopher Prairie we've cleared the fields, and become soft, so we make ourselves unhappy artificially, at great expense and exertion: Methodists disliking Episcopalians, the man with the Hudson laughing at the man with the flivver.†   (source)
  • She looked much at what she could see of the Hudson from her west windows and of the great city building up rapidly on either hand.†   (source)
  • The Van Osburgh marriage was celebrated in the village church near the paternal estate on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • He went from mathematics into physical chemistry; began to understand the mass action law; became as sarcastic as Terry about what he called the "bedside manner" of Tubbs and Holabird; read much French and German; went canoeing on the Hudson on Sunday afternoons; and had a bawdy party with Leora and Terry to celebrate the day when the Institute was purified by the sale of Holabird's pride, Gladys the Centrifuge.†   (source)
  • But she was brought up in the country because her mother had to leave New York after the disgrace, whatever it was: they lived up the Hudson alone, winter and summer, till Mamma was sixteen.†   (source)
  • FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE TERM "PERSONAGE" Monsignor Darcy invited Amory up to the Stuart palace on the Hudson for a week at Christmas, and they had enormous conversations around the open fire.†   (source)
  • He felt a distinct disappointment on learning that she was away; and almost immediately remembered that, only the day before, he had refused an invitation to spend the following Sunday with the Reggie Chiverses at their house on the Hudson, a few miles below Skuytercliff.†   (source)
  • The round green hills sentineling the broad, expansive bosom of the Hudson held her attention by their beauty as the train followed the line of the stream.†   (source)
  • As he paced the platform, waiting for the Washington express, he remembered that there were people who thought there would one day be a tunnel under the Hudson through which the trains of the Pennsylvania railway would run straight into New York.†   (source)
  • Owing to the fact that the street was not yet built up solidly, it was possible to see east to the green tops of the trees in Central Park and west to the broad waters of the Hudson, a glimpse of which was to be had out of the west windows.†   (source)
  • The hulls of many boats in various stages of repair were around him; he smelled sawdust and paint and the scarcely distinguishable fiat odor of the Hudson.†   (source)
  • Mr. and Mrs. van der Luyden divided their time between Trevenna, their place in Maryland, and Skuytercliff, the great estate on the Hudson which had been one of the colonial grants of the Dutch government to the famous first Governor, and of which Mr. van der Luyden was still "Patroon."†   (source)
  • "I am no trapper, Hurry," returned the young man proudly: "I live by the rifle, a we'pon at which I will not turn my back on any man of my years, atween the Hudson and the St. Lawrence.†   (source)
  • He appeared never to have heard of any river in America but the Mississippi and was unprepared to recognise the existence of the Hudson, though obliged to confess at last that it was fully equal to the Rhine.†   (source)
  • A gentle slope descends from it to a silver sheet of water, bordered by high trees, between which, peeps may be caught at the blue hills of the Hudson.†   (source)
  • Seventy and five years have I been upon the road; and there are not half that number of leagues in the whole distance, after you leave the Hudson, on which I have not tasted venison of my own killing.†   (source)
  • Of these the latter held the country along the waters of the Chesapeake and the seashore; while the Mohegans occupied the district between the Hudson and the ocean, including much of New England.†   (source)
  • This was the state of things to the east of the Hudson: to the south-west of that river, and in the direction of the Floridas, the case was different.†   (source)
  • The party crossed the Hudson in the Jersey City ferryboat, and drove in a carriage to the St. Nicholas Hotel, on Broadway.†   (source)
  • Na, na, Pathfinder, foolhardiness is na mair like the bravery o' Wallace or Bruce than Albany on the Hudson is like the old town of Edinbro'."†   (source)
  • They have joined the Hudson to the Mississippi, and made the Atlantic Ocean communicate with the Gulf of Mexico, across a continent of more than five hundred leagues in extent which separates the two seas.†   (source)
  • My grandfather's grandmother was seized by an evil Dutch trader two centuries ago; and coming to the valleys of the Hudson and Housatonic, black, little, and lithe, she shivered and shrank in the harsh north winds, looked longingly at the hills, and often crooned a heathen melody to the child between her knees, thus: Do ba-na co-ba, ge-ne me, ge-ne me!†   (source)
  • It was the sterile and rugged district which separates the tributaries of Champlain from those of the Hudson, the Mohawk, and the St. Lawrence.†   (source)
  • He proceeded to the banks of the Hudson, and looked about among the vessels moored or anchored in the river, for any that were about to depart.†   (source)
  • The incidents of this tale occurred between the years 1740 and 1745, when the settled portions of the colony of New York were confined to the four Atlantic counties, a narrow belt of country on each side of the Hudson, extending from its mouth to the falls near its head, and to a few advanced "neighborhoods" on the Mohawk and the Schoharie.†   (source)
  • Still, the great proprietors south of the Hudson constituted a superior class, having ideas and tastes of its own, and forming the centre of political action.†   (source)
  • My father has procured a call for Mr. Grant, to one of the towns on the Hudson where he can live more at his ease than in journeying through these woods; where he can spend the evening of his life in comfort and quiet; and where his daughter may meet with such society, and form such a connection, as may be proper for one of her years and character.†   (source)
  • * Glenn's Falls are on the Hudson, some forty or fifty miles above the head of tide, or that place where the river becomes navigable for sloops.†   (source)
  • His stronghold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling.†   (source)
  • Happily for the more tender-minded and the more timid, the trunks of the trees, the leaves, and the smoke had concealed much of that which passed, and night shortly after drew its veil over the lake, and the whole of that seemingly interminable wilderness; which may be said to have then stretched, with few and immaterial interruptions, from the banks of the Hudson to the shores of the Pacific Ocean.†   (source)
  • In the dead hush of midnight, he could even hear the barking of the watchdog from the opposite shore of the Hudson; but it was so vague and faint as only to give an idea of his distance from this faithful companion of man.†   (source)
  • At last the Hudson came into view; and, at a quarter-past eleven in the evening of the 11th, the train stopped in the station on the right bank of the river, before the very pier of the Cunard line.†   (source)
  • In most of the States situated to the south-west of the Hudson some great English proprietors had settled, who had imported with them aristocratic principles and the English law of descent.†   (source)
  • Before the war of the Revolution, the inhabited parts of the colony of New York were limited to less than a tenth of its possessions, A narrow belt of country, extending for a short distance on either side of the Hudson, with a similar occupation of fifty miles on the banks of the Mohawk, together with the islands of Nassau and Staten, and a few insulated settlements on chosen land along the margins of streams, composed the country, which was then inhabited by less than two hundred…†   (source)
  • "Ask the French general if his glasses can reach to the Hudson," said Munro, proudly; "and if he knows when and where to expect the army of Webb."†   (source)
  • I have explained the reasons why it was impossible ever to establish a powerful aristocracy in America; these reasons existed with less force to the south-west of the Hudson.†   (source)
  • It is matter of history that the settlements on the eastern shores of the Hudson, such as Claverack, Kinderhook, and even Poughkeepsie, were not regarded as safe from Indian incursions a century since; and there is still standing on the banks of the same river, and within musket-shot of the wharves of Albany, a residence of a younger branch of the Van Rensselaers, that has loopholes constructed for defence against the same crafty enemy, although it dates from a period scarcely so…†   (source)
  • In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.†   (source)
  • Chapter XXXIII IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SHOWS HIMSELF EQUAL TO THE OCCASION An hour after, the Henrietta passed the lighthouse which marks the entrance of the Hudson, turned the point of Sandy Hook, and put to sea.†   (source)
  • He then spoke gladly of his intention to rejoin them the moment he had led the advance a few miles toward the Hudson, and immediately took his leave.†   (source)
  • Their object was to plant a colony on the shores of the Hudson; but after having been driven about for some time in the Atlantic Ocean, they were forced to land on that arid coast of New England which is now the site of the town of Plymouth.†   (source)
  • No, no; instead of throwing away strength and opportunity by crossing to the fort, we lay by, under the bank of the Hudson, waiting to watch the movements of the Hurons.†   (source)
  • [Footnote e: The States of New England are those situated to the east of the Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, Vermont; 5, New Hampshire; 6, Maine.†   (source)
  • It appeared as if Webb, with his army, which lay slumbering on the banks of the Hudson, had utterly forgotten the strait to which his countrymen were reduced.†   (source)
  • I was sent by Major Effingham, at Sir William's own bidding, to outflank the French, and carry the tidings of their disaster across the portage, to the fort on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • The intelligence of New England, and the wealth of the country to the south of the Hudson (as I have shown in the preceding chapter), long exercised a sort of aristocratic influence, which tended to retain the exercise of social authority in the hands of a few.†   (source)
  • Besides which, the principal rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean—the Hudson, the Susquehanna, and the Potomac—take their rise beyond the Alleghanies, in an open district, which borders upon the valley of the Mississippi.†   (source)
  • About an hour before the setting of the sun, on the day already mentioned, the forms of five men might have been seen issuing from the narrow vista of trees, where the path to the Hudson entered the forest, and advancing in the direction of the ruined works.†   (source)
  • Toward the southeast, but in immediate contact with the fort, was an entrenched camp, posted on a rocky eminence, that would have been far more eligible for the work itself, in which Hawkeye pointed out the presence of those auxiliary regiments that had so recently left the Hudson in their company.†   (source)
  • Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the intermediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture of the cruelty and fierceness of the savage warfare of those periods than the country which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes.†   (source)
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  • As Mae and Tuck rolled past, the young man grinned and said to the driver of the Hudson, who lounged at the wheel, "Looky there."   (source)
    the hudson = an old model of automobile
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