Neuse

[ noos, nyoos ]

/ nus, nyus /

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a river in E central North Carolina, flowing SE to Pamlico Sound. 275 miles (442 km) long.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

When the Yankees were crossing the Neuse Bridge at the falls, near the old paper mill, the bridge broke in.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States|Various
Took his friends nigh onto a year, to convince him that The Neuse was to blame for the collision.
Heart of the Blue Ridge|Waldron Baily
The fleet arrived in Neuse River on the 12th of March, and the land forces were in our front on the following day.
Reminiscences of the Guilford Grays, Co. B., 27th N.C. Regiment|John A. Sloan
De nex' Sunday we wus married in de Baptist church at Neuse.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States|Various

It is built directly on the Neuse, whose banks are high and steep at this point.
The Campaign of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia|Charles Eustis Hubbard