Combahee

[ kuhm-bee, kuhm-bee ]

noun

1. a river in S South Carolina, flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean. 40 miles (64 km) long.

Example Sentences

Mr Robertson was full of the disasters which had resulted from a recent Yankee raid of the Combahee river.

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Mr Walter Blake arrived soon after dinner; he had come up from his plantation on the Combahee river on purpose to see me.

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This fleet, meanwhile, had gone southwardly, pursuing the object of its former quest up the waters of the Combahee.

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He overtook the brigade on the north bank of the Combahee river, near the ferry.

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Leslie then resorted to force to obtain supplies; and late in August he sent an expedition up the Combahee for the purpose.

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