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Little Rock   /lˈɪtəl rɑk/   Listen
Little Rock

noun
1.
The state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River.  Synonym: capital of Arkansas.






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"Little Rock" Quotes from Famous Books



... (Gracefully, merrily). This goes bubbling and sparkling along, now swirling round a little rock, now running over a little waterfall, but always going merrily on until softer and softer grows the tonality, finally vanishing from musical sight. The piece is purely a play of tone, but never shallow, for it suggests not only a particular type of Nature scene, but the significance of the beauty ...
— Edward MacDowell • John F. Porte

... man and art grafter in the West, says to me once in Little Rock: "If you ever lose your mind, Billy, and get too old to do honest swindling among grown men, go to New York. In the West a sucker is born every minute; but in New York they appear in chunks ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry

... cisterns at which Shinto worshippers must wash their hands and rinse their mouths ere praying to the Kami. A mitarashi or o-chozubachi is placed before every Shinto temple. The pilgrim to Shin-Kukedo-San should perform this ceremonial ablution at the little rock-spring above described, before entering the sacred cave. Here even the gods of the cave are said to wash after having passed ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn

... little rock headland jutted out into the water. Don halted us, and we stood silent, gazing. I think that there is hardly any place more fantastic than a Bermuda shorefront in the moonlight. In these little eroded recesses, caves and grottoes one might expect to see crooked-legged gnomes, scampering to peer ...
— The White Invaders • Raymond King Cummings

... fearful moments she finds herself thinking of the eleven swan princes in the fairy tale, and that little rock in mid ocean on which they stood crowded together when the sun went down. Claude is here, squeezed into the narrow niche by her side, and he is calling out to Tim, ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various



Words linked to "Little Rock" :   Arkansas, capital of Arkansas, ar, Land of Opportunity, state capital



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