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Miami

noun

A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.

A city and resort in southeastern Florida on Biscayne Bay; the best known city in Florida; a haven for retirees and a refuge for Cubans fleeing Castro.

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"Miami" Quotes from Famous Books

... boys while bathing. Yet another was unearthed at the mouth of the Great Kanawha by a freshet, and was likewise found by a boy while playing at the water's edge. The last plate was hidden where the Great Miami joins the Ohio; and this done, Celoron crossed Ohio to Lake Erie and went ...

— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... "I come out one day, half nood, onto the banks of the Miami River. The rest was a pipe after what ...

— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers

... to this irregular and doleful music, passed through another little town which Zene said was named Boston, late on a rainy afternoon. Here they crossed the Miami River in a bridge through the cracks of which Robert Day and Corinne looked at the full but not very wide stream. It flowed beneath them in comparative silence. The rain pricked the ...

— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... hospitalizations. The six deaths were evenly scattered throughout the country: two in New York, one each in Chicago and Detroit, and two more in San Francisco. The disappearances were in Los Angeles and in Miami, and the hospitalizations were pretty ...

— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett

... of two brothers in the last part but one I was reminded of another strange story of two brothers in that same distant land, which I heard years ago and had forgotten. It now came back to me in a newspaper from Miami, of all places in the world, sent me by a correspondent in that town. He—Mr. J. L. Rodger—some time ago when reading an autobiographical book of mine made the discovery that we were natives of the same ...

— A Traveller in Little Things • W. H. Hudson

... westward march, left large tracts of wilderness behind them. They took up first the rich bottom lands along the river courses, the Ohio and Miami and Licking, and later the valleys of the Mississippi and Missouri, and the shores of the great lakes. But there still remained back woods in New York and Pennsylvania, though the cities of New York and Philadelphia had each a population of more than one hundred thousand in 1815. When the ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

Words linked to "Miami" : port of entry, Sunshine State, Algonquin, Florida, city, urban center, Everglade State, FL, metropolis, Algonquian, point of entry