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315-mile river that flows from the Adirondacks in upstate New York to Upper New York Bay (near New York City)

The sky arced overhead, the perfect blue of a china bowl, darkening to sapphire over the Hudson River, where the sun was going down.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

Hudson River was hit on schedule.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
THAT JANUARY IT GOT so cold you could see chunks of ice the size of cars floating down the Hudson River.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
We came in along the Hudson River and I stared at the sweep of clean-kept homes and grounds.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
Maybe he decided to drive into the Hudson River.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
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.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
Off to the right, the Hudson River lay blue-green and quiet, glinting under the sun.
Robert Lipsyte -- The Contender
We sailed on the Hudson River and wandered about on its green banks, of which Bryant loved to sing.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
Verplancks Point was on the Hudson River, just south of a town called Peekskill.
James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
The decks teemed with kids, wild with excitement, racing up and down and trying to fall into the Hudson River.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The ship left a pier on the Hudson River with one name, I don't know what it was but it got changed three months later off the West African coast.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
People are saying he flew his aeroplane twenty miles this morning, up the Hudson River.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
It sat along the banks of the Hudson River, and the rolling hills and lush quadrangles of its campus gave it the grand appearance of a university.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
The view of the woods out my dorm window, the Hudson River in the distance, the smell of pine trees.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
I see them babes comin' at me I jump inna Hudson River.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
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.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
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.
David McCullough -- John Adams
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.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
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.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

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