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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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