Beaver Tail
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In the year 1749 a light-house was erected on Beaver Tail.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
What was a clean-shaven man of cities, with silk hat, and frock-coat, and patent leathers, doing at Beaver Tail, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains?
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
"Beaver Tail, an old ax maker, showed me how to do it," said Flint.
From The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone by Margaret A. McIntyre
At 10.30 P. M. we were off Beaver Tail light; F Company was called and formed on the hurricane deck, Captain Tew arranging with the steamer captain to sail through the inner harbor of Newport.
From History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861 by Charles H. Clarke
They seemed a little surprised at meeting us, too; but we might as well have talked from Point Judith to Beaver Tail as to have attempted conversation there.
From Oldport Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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