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Virginia

noun

A state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War. Synonyms: Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, VA.

One of the British colonies that formed the United States.

A town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range.

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"Virginia" Quotes from Famous Books

... preferment to be had in Virginia," he said; "there are stars to be won at Yorktown, Carus. But those stars will never glitter on this faded uniform of mine. So be it. Let us do our best, lad. It's all one ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... Virginia Blakeley, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Stuart Blakeley, of Riverside Drive, who has been in a state of coma for six days, still shows no sign ...

— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

... periagua and fairly out of the river. I knew we should come to conclusions in the matter, and time is precious, as there is a cruiser of the Queen so nigh. The rogues will pass the pennant, like innocent market-people, and I'll risk a Flemish gelding against a Virginia nag, that they inquire if the captain has no need of vegetables for his soup! Ah! ha-ha-ha! That Ludlow is a simpleton, niece of mine, and he is not yet fit to deal with men of mature years. You'll think better of his ...

— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper

... those of the gold-seekers, bound for the high Sierras on the border of the desert, who had not taken the Sacramento River route and had decided to brave instead the dangers of the trail through the fertile San Joaquin, up to the Feather River and thus into the diggings about Virginia City. Gold had been found by that time in Nevada and hundreds of intrepid men were facing the awful Mojave and Nevada deserts, blazing hot in day-time and icy cold at night, to seek the new Eldorados. ...

— Arizona's Yesterday - Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer • John H. Cady

... see my mother was a Miss Spencer from Spencer Falls, Virginia, and her mother was a Miss Pennelton, so you and I are cousins. Now ...

— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos

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