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Paul Revere   /pɔl rɪvˈɪr/   Listen
Paul Revere

noun
1.
American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818).  Synonym: Revere.






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"Paul Revere" Quotes from Famous Books



... half of it was very jolly, and half of it was too utterly beastly for anything. The Common, and the Gardens, and Commonwealth Avenue, you know, were rather pretty, and must have cost a deuce of a lot of money in this country; but as for the State House, and Paul Revere's Church, and the Old South, and the city generally, why, it was simply disgusting, all that, you know. And in the afternoon he went to see Sybil Brandon, and began talking about what ...
— An American Politician • F. Marion Crawford

... committee of correspondence appointed Samuel Adams and four others to draw up a declaration of what had been done. They sent Paul Revere as express with the information ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

... agent of Marietta showed them the gray house. They came upon it just west of the village, where it rested against a sky that was a warm blue cloak buttoned with tiny stars. The gray house had been there when women who kept cats were probably witches, when Paul Revere made false teeth in Boston preparatory to arousing the great commercial people, when our ancestors were gloriously deserting Washington in droves. Since those days the house had been bolstered up in a feeble ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... points of view from which this tale of Paul Revere may be told, but to the generality of people the interest of the poem, and of the historical event itself, will always centre around Christ Church, on Salem Street, in the North End of Boston—the church where the lanterns were hung out on the night ...
— The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees • Mary Caroline Crawford

... have some interesting points of view. A hundred years seems a good while to us new people. And already streets are changing, houses are being torn down. There are some curious things you will like to remember. Did Warren tell you about Paul Revere?" ...
— A Little Girl in Old Boston • Amanda Millie Douglas

... watchers at Charlestown was a brave young man named Paul Revere. He was ready to serve his country in any ...
— Fifty Famous People • James Baldwin



Words linked to "Paul Revere" :   silver-worker, revere, silverworker, silversmith, American Revolutionary leader



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