Nottaway
Americannoun
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It was enough to pay a villager of Nottaway to travel with her—to ensure no wolves made off with the horse or his brother's remains—and to pay off the coachman when finally he awoke.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
And then, alone in the coach, pulled by a team of four coal-black stallions, Lord Primus left the village of Nottaway, in significantly worse temper than he had arrived there.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Being baffled, Nat Turner with a party of twenty men determined to cross the Nottaway river at the Cypress Bridge and attack Jerusalem where he expected to procure additional arms and ammunition from the rear.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various
Square towns, like the Nottaway settlement, also in Southampton County, usually measured from two hundred to three hundred feet on a side, and had more than one palisaded entrance.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee
I recollect distinctly the little locomotives, Nottaway and Logan.
From A Pioneer Railway of the West by Lafferty, Maude Ward
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