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Cape Cod
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  • How does it compare to Cape Cod Tortilla Chips?†   (source)
  • 'We've got cedars from Lebanon due at the sawmill in Oslo to be turned into shingles for the builder in Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • After presenting the birthday bag, some of the girls start talking about the activity-jammed weekend, which will start with a bus trip to Cape Cod the next morning.†   (source)
  • In Cape Cod,' she said.†   (source)
  • She'd never met Allie or anything, because that was her first summer in Maine—before that, she went to Cape Cod-but I told her quite a lot about him.†   (source)
  • Brock closed her last restaurant in 1979 and moved to Cape Cod, where she is a painter and gallery owner.†   (source)
  • British Admiral Samuel Graves, whose responsibility it was to patrol the coastline against privateers, described snowstorms at sea between Cape Ann and Cape Cod as defying the most resolute of men.†   (source)
  • "You spend summers on Cape Cod, da?" the general had said.†   (source)
  • It had been taken five years ago in Cape Cod; one of the happiest vacations they'd ever had.†   (source)
  • I was a writer on Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • The Kennedy presence has put Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on the map.†   (source)
  • Beach scenes would be an ongoing theme throughout the essay…California to Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • The two bickered back and forth over when they'd last glimpsed Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • My dad has someone covering for him so he's on Cape Cod this week.†   (source)
  • They had never been off Cape Cod before.†   (source)
  • I had no idea what a coffin like this was doing on Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • It was a phone call from Jeb three weeks ago that had led her back to Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • After this brief stop in New York, they'd head north for the final weekend of summer in Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • When I was posted in Washington, I had two great American friends on Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • Downey lives with his family on Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • It burns at the center of a five-foot circular slab of Cape Cod granite.†   (source)
  • In front of us, Cape Cod stretched to the horizon—a parenthesis of green and gold in a blue sea.†   (source)
  • Then we'll have enough strength to break free of our tomb and wreak havoc upon Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • On the tip of Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • It was as if she'd been expecting him; the way the streetlights played on her features as they walked the late night streets of Boston …. how she'd stared at him across the table at dinner …. the following weekend at Cape Cod, where they had strolled on the beach and had a picnic in the sand …. or a picnic and a hot-air balloon ride ….†   (source)
  • The weather was no warmer but fair at last, and the wind out of the northwest, exactly what was needed to clear Cape Cod on a broad reach.†   (source)
  • He was back on the road, riding the circuit, the reach of his travels extending more than two hundred miles, from the island of Martha's Vineyard off Cape Cod, north to Maine, which was then part of the Massachusetts Bay Province, to as far west as Worcester.†   (source)
  • …know: like how I remember when she first came home from the hospital, a big pink blob with a perma-smile, and she used to fall asleep while grabbing on to my pointer finger; how I used to give her piggyback rides up and down the beach on Cape Cod, and she would tug on my ponytail to direct me one way or the other; how soft and furry her head was when she was first born; that the first time you kiss someone you'll be nervous, and it will be weird, and it won't be as good as you want…†   (source)
  • He teaches creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and he is writing a novel about Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • A quick step in New York for pictures and darkroom work, then on to Cape Cod where summer would end for both of them.†   (source)
  • On the beach at Cape Cod, one year later, she reflected without bitterness on the turn of events that had led her to this place.†   (source)
  • She is mourning in seclusion on Cape Cod, her easy smile replaced by a solemn downward gaze and her eyes hidden behind oversize sunglasses.†   (source)
  • The beltway around the city was jammed last night and this morning as the army of lawyers, lobbyists, journalists, and assorted bureaucrats escaped to cooler locales in the mountains of Virginia, the Maryland shore, or favored spots up the coastline to Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard.†   (source)
  • A hardened seaman like Captain Tucker knew what the Atlantic could deliver up in February: the chances of being hit by a northeaster and driven onto the shoals of Cape Cod, graveyard of ships; the sheer terror of winter storms at sea when freezing spray aloft could turn to ice so heavy as to cause a ship to capsize.†   (source)
  • That was Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • The Fisher House was a beautifully restored captain's house that sat on the edge of a rocky cliff overlooking Cape Cod Bay, and when she saw it in the distance, she slowed to a jog.†   (source)
  • Between her summer on Cape Cod, two September weeks in Newport, Rhode Island, and the two weeks in Greece, she's been gone from the White House for almost four months.†   (source)
  • As a nature writer, I have traveled all over the world to experience the wild, but some of my own wildest moments have been closer to home, on the same domestic Cape Cod beach I've returned to all my life.†   (source)
  • Cape Cod was always crowded at that time of year, but most vacationers tended to sleep a little later, and she enjoyed the sensation of jogging on the hard, smooth sand left from the outgoing tide.†   (source)
  • They were strong enough to carry at least one other person, so maybe she intended to put me in a large tote bag and schlep me to Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • It is here on Cape Cod, on the domestic beach where I first walked holding my mother's hand, and where I later spread my father's ashes, that I learned that my wildest moments are often closest to home.†   (source)
  • Special Agent Behn discreetly informs the president's secretary that Jackie is being airlifted to the hospital at Otis Air Force Base, located near Falmouth, Massachusetts, on the western edge of Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • He smiled contentedly, like he could think of no better way to spend his day than flying back and forth from Cape Cod, helping his friends, and channeling the voices of otherworldly ninjas.†   (source)
  • So now, vacationing at Cape Cod, alone in the world and without a man anywhere in the foreseeable future, she wanted to do some things this week just for herself.†   (source)
  • As luck would have it, the bottle didn't break, but it was promptly forgotten and remained near the bow of the boat for the rest of the afternoon and early evening as the boat made its journey back to Cape Cod Bay.†   (source)
  • "They're meeting us on Cape Cod."†   (source)
  • Low in ambience but high in character, it was similar to the pier restaurants they had on Cape Cod-wooden floors scraped and scuffed by years of sandy shoes, large windows offering a view of the Atlantic Ocean, pictures of trophy fish on the walls.†   (source)
  • Old Gloucester Town, Marblehead, Cape Cod Folks, Captains Courageous—the rich salty names came reeking up with a smell of tarred rope, dry codheads rotting in the sun, rocking dories kneedeep in gutted fish, the strong loin-smell of the sea in harbors, and the quiet brooding vacancy of a seaman's face, sign of his marriage with ocean.†   (source)
  • Vida had seen it, she stated modestly; she had seen it on a summer trip to Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • She dragged him away for an illegal five-day walk on Cape Cod, in March.†   (source)
  • He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man.†   (source)
  • Chapter X Just before the Perkins Institution closed for the summer, it was arranged that my teacher and I should spend our vacation at Brewster, on Cape Cod, with our dear friend, Mrs. Hopkins.†   (source)
  • They were the Blaines of Lake Geneva; they had quite enough relatives to serve in place of friends, and an enviable standing from Pasadena to Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • There's Lexington where we turned back the redcoats, and Longfellow's home at Cambridge, and Cape Cod—just everything—fishermen and whale-ships and sand-dunes and everything."†   (source)
  • Have you been clear to Cape Cod?†   (source)
  • When she suggested, as though it were a tremendous joke, "I think baby and I might up and leave you, and run off to Cape Cod by ourselves!" his only reaction was "Golly, don't know but what you may almost have to do that, if we don't get in a trip next year."†   (source)
  • I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.†   (source)
  • How widely it is dispersed may be seen by the fact that it is reported in popular use, as a verb signifying to prance or to walk consciously, in Southeastern Missouri, Nebraska, Northwestern Arkansas, Eastern Alabama and Western Indiana, and, with slightly different meaning, on Cape Cod.†   (source)
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