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Myles Standish   /maɪlz stˈændɪʃ/   Listen
Myles Standish

noun
1.
English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656).  Synonyms: Miles Standish, Standish.






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"Myles Standish" Quotes from Famous Books



... draperies of his crew for cloth to keep her warm, and all the men dined scantily that she might be fed. It is not strange that a friendship was born on that voyage between the two people who had been so oddly introduced. Lo-Lale had never heard of John Alden and Myles Standish, principally, no doubt, because they had not been born, but it must be allowed in his behalf, or in hers, that he had never seen the damsel whom he was courting thus by proxy. When he did behold her he was vastly pleased, and as he appeared ...
— Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate • Charles M. Skinner



Words linked to "Myles Standish" :   colonist, settler, Miles Standish



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