Neuse

[ noos, nyoos ]

/ nus, nyus /

noun

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

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Example sentences from the Web for neuse

De nex' Sunday we wus married in de Baptist church at Neuse.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States|Various
They say the Federals are retreating on Newbern; yet we know they made 500 of our men prisoners after they crossed the Neuse.
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital|John Beauchamp Jones
We crossed the Neuse, a rather wide river, in a narrow and clumsy ferry-boat.
Travels Through North America, v. 1-2|Berhard Saxe-Weimar Eisenach
This stream was a tributary of the Neuse River and was then unfordable.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2|Jacob Dolson Cox

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

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