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frightening or unsettling
- The march south from McKonkey's Ferry was for many the most harrowing part of the night.p. 276.9
- On December 29, Washington, Greene, Sullivan, Knox, and their troops were on the move, marching through a six-inch snowfall, to cross the Delaware at McKonkey's Ferry and nearby Yardley's Ferry, an undertaking that was as harrowing as the crossing of Christmas night.p. 285.2
There are no more uses of "harrowing" in 1776.
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