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Pacific

noun

The largest ocean in the world. Synonym: Pacific Ocean.

adjective

Relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean.

Disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature. Synonym: peaceable. "A quiet and peaceable person" , "In a peaceable and orderly manner"

Promoting peace.

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"Pacific" Quotes from Famous Books

... machine that waited outside for him under the porte-cochere was sober black. It was the most expensive machine in the county, yet he did not care to flaunt its price or horse-power in a red flare across the landscape, which also was mostly his, from the sand dunes and the everlasting beat of the Pacific breakers, across the fat bottomlands and upland pastures, to the far summits clad with redwood forest and wreathed ...

— The Turtles of Tasman • Jack London

... easy to use. Makes delicious desserts. Awarded Gold Medal at Panama-Pacific Exposition. Avoid imitations. The name EMMA E. CURTIS is your guarantee of purity ...

— American Cookery - November, 1921 • Various

... thus acquainted with the great avenues leading through the hunting ground, and to the occupied country of the neighboring tribes—an important circumstance in the condition of either peace or war. Further the traders were an exact thermometer of the pacific or hostile intention and feelings of the Indians with whom they traded. Generally they were foreigners, most frequently Scotchmen, who had not been long in the country, or upon the frontier; who, ...

— Daniel Boone - The Pioneer of Kentucky • John S. C. Abbott

... remember that it was not successfully accomplished by the gold hunters and fur traders who came first, but only when those came who, as farmers, began to cultivate the soil. Later, as the population moved westward across the Alleghenies into the Mississippi Valley and on to the Pacific Coast, the hunters and trappers were the scouts who found the way, while the real army that took possession of the land ...

— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn

... entire frontier. Customarily quiet enough during the hours of daylight, the town became a mad saturnalia with the approach of darkness, its ceaseless orgies being noisily continued until dawn. But at this period all track work on the Kansas Pacific being temporarily suspended by Indian outbreaks, the graders made both night and day alike hideous, and the single dirty street which composed Sheridan, lined with shacks, crowded with saloons, the dull dead prairie stretching away on every side to the horizon, ...

— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish

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