Brattleboro

[ brat-l-bur-oh, -buhr-oh ]

/ ˈbræt lˌbɜr oʊ, -ˌbʌr oʊ /

a town in SE Vermont.

QUIZZES

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Question 1 of 7

What does “clement” mean?

I wish you could be with me in Brattleboro' and coast down hill on a sled, go sliding and snowballing by moonlight!
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled from Her Letters and Journals|Charles Edward Stowe
As a matter of fact they swung round Brattleboro and saw only the faint blue of its smoke from the western side.
Blacksheep! Blacksheep!|Meredith Nicholson
Kipling married an American woman and lived for a time at Brattleboro, Vt.
Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year|E.C. Hartwell
This morning passed by,—the time of our stay in Brattleboro, and we neither saw nor heard anything of our Governor.
The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary|Cyrus Pringle

He married the daughter of a prominent Brattleboro farmer, but was too stern and reserved to prove a good American husband.
Stage-coach and Tavern Days|Alice Morse Earle