Storrs

[ stawrz ]

/ stɔrz /

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a town in NE Connecticut.

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I never ceased to love the sacrifice of the mass, which was an abomination and an idolatrous practice to Pastor Storrs.
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood
For some reason, and I think it was the reach of Pastor Storrs, men in other places began to seek me.
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood
If Mrs. Storrs had drawn back from me while I lived under her roof, I should have felt an outcast indeed.
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Dr. Henry M. Storrs used to style the place, the mother of his mind.
Revisiting the Earth|James Langdon Hill

I can't see that there is much left of the party which Emory Storrs once designated "an organized appetite."
Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions|Slason Thompson