Housatonic

[ hoo-suh-ton-ik ]

noun

1. a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.

Example Sentences

Their effect on the "Ironsides" in October, and now on the "Housatonic," sustains me in the idea.

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"I was better off coupling freight cars on the Housatonic," he soon remarked.

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Ought not a factory turned by the Housatonic do more work than a factory turned by a thin and shallow mountain stream?

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Here the little party spent many days in experimenting with it in the waters about the island; and in the Housatonic River.

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This Housatonic road is rich in just such pastoral pictures.

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