Alton

[awl-tn]

noun

1. a city in southwestern Illinois.

2. a first name.

Example Sentences

Lincoln’s principal inspiration for the lecture flowed from the murders referred to in the book’s title—three recent acts of racial violence, all “revolting to humanity”: the mass-lynching of blacks and gamblers in Vicksburg, Miss., in 1835; the fatal mob attack on Elijah P. Lovejoy, the abolitionist editor, in Alton, Ill., in 1837; and not least the public burning to death, in 1836, of Francis McIntosh, a free black sailor who stabbed to death a white deputy sheriff in St. Louis after a wrongful arrest.

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Other UK theme parks such as Alton Towers, Thorpe Park and Legoland Windsor are usually closed in winter months.

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Lord Alton of Liverpool, chair of the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights, told the BBC that Sai's case "illustrates the extensive reach of China's campaign of transnational repression", and that he would support Sai's bid for asylum.

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Then there’s Alton Brown’s “Burger of the Gods,” which is somehow even simpler — almost monastic in its restraint.

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James Harding, 34, from Alton in Hampshire, and his "loyal right-hand man" Jayes Kharouti, 39, from Epsom in Surrey, ran a vast criminal empire and imported £30m worth of cocaine into the UK.

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