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El Paso

noun

A city in western Texas on the Mexican border; located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande across from the Mexican city of Juarez.

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"El Paso" Quotes from Famous Books

... Antonio, Texas, on the first day of May, 1856, and took the road to El Paso, or Paso del Norte, on the Rio Grande, 762 miles by the itinerary. The plains of Texas were covered with verdure and flowers, and the mocking birds made the night ...

— Building a State in Apache Land • Charles D. Poston

... good shape for many years. The dimensions and the manner of making the forms for the concrete, and the location for the bolts to hold the plate and rafters, are shown in the diagram. —Contributed by Edith E. Lane, El Paso, Texas. ...

— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... way back—when I sets into a little poker game over in El Paso, table stakes she is, an' cleans up for about $10,000. For mebby a week I goes 'round thinkin' that $10,000 is a million; an' after that I simply knows it is. These yere onnacheral riches onhinges me to a p'int whar I deecides I'll ...

— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis

... for an attack on Forlorn River," burst out Belding. "I can't believe that possible. These rebel-raiders have a little sense. They wouldn't spoil their game by pulling U. S. soldiers across the line from Yuma to El Paso. But, as Jim says, if they wanted to steal a few horses or cattle they wouldn't build fires. I'm ...

— Desert Gold • Zane Grey

... but foreign varieties, or, perhaps, raised from foreign seed. They will not succeed in open air, although now and then they will ripen a bunch. The Brinkle, Canadian Chief, Child's Superb, and El Paso belong to ...

— The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines • George Husmann

Words linked to "El Paso" : city, Lone-Star State, urban center, Texas, TX, metropolis