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Georgia

noun

A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. Synonyms: Empire State of the South, GA, Peach State.

One of the British colonies that formed the United States.

A republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991. Synonym: Sakartvelo.

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"Georgia" Quotes from Famous Books

... one exciting morning on the banks of the Etowah River, a treacherous stream that threads its way through the red hills of northwest Georgia. A bunch of us boys were spending that morning in swimming. Not much swimming, either, for only one boy in the crowd could swim, and all except him were under thirteen years old. Bob was fifteen, and a good swimmer. One ...

— "Say Fellows--" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues • Wade C. Smith

... till I was as hoarse as a crow, and Johnny drank it all in like water; kept time with his head, stamped when I gave him 'Marching through Georgia,' and hurrahed feebly in the chorus of 'Red, White, and Blue.' It was lovely to see how he enjoyed it, and I was so glad I had a voice to comfort those poor babies with. He cried when I had to go, and so touched my heart that I asked all about him, ...

— A Garland for Girls • Louisa May Alcott

... (only eleven days after Lincoln's election), were preparing to dissolve their alliance with the Free States. Mississippi passed the ordinance of secession January 9, 1861; Florida followed on the 10th; Alabama on the 11th; Georgia on the 19th; Louisiana on the 25th; and Texas on the 1st day of February. The plans of the seceders went on, unmolested by the Buchanan administration. Southerners in the Cabinet and in Congress conspired to deplete the resources of the Government, ...

— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... mother, and ever-apprehensive Aunt Melissa had come from the heat of coastal Georgia to the invigorating coolness of the Southern Appalachians. They had come to Point View several weeks later than usual this year, as spring was tardy and the hot days at home had been few. Ruth had been most miserable for weeks before they left home, ...

— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll

... The Gulf of Georgia, the Straits of Fuca, and Queen Charlotte Sound are the words upon the lips of everybody. Shades of my schoolboy days! How much sweeter they taste here than in the old geography class! Before us stretches ...

— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard

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