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Delaware

noun

A river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay. Synonym: Delaware River.

A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania.

One of the British colonies that formed the United States.

A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies. Synonyms: DE, Diamond State, First State.

The Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware.

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"Delaware" Quotes from Famous Books

... case of aboriginal burial was brought to my notice recently by Mr. William Klingbeil, of Philadelphia. On the New Jersey bank of the Delaware River, a short distance below Gloucester City, the skeleton of a man was found buried in a standing position, in a high, red, sandy-clay bluff overlooking the stream. A few inches below the surface the neck bones were found, and ...

— An introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians • H. C. Yarrow

... majority." Passage of two Legislatures. More than majority of the people required for ratification. Indiana. Time requirements. New Mexico. Revision by Convention. Some states have no or infrequent Constitutional Conventions. New Hampshire. Delaware Constitution alone amended by Legislature or Convention without popular vote. Thirty states gave foundations male suffrage by ...

— Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment • Various

... school favourites a great number, it may be observed, were nobles or of noble family—Lords Clare and Delaware, the Duke of Dorset and young Wingfield—and that their rank may have had some share in first attracting his regard to them, might appear from a circumstance mentioned to me by one of his school-fellows, who, being monitor one day, had put Lord Delaware on his list for punishment. ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.) - With his Letters and Journals. • Thomas Moore

... It was decided that each state should send two senators to congress, and a number of representatives proportioned to its population.[132] It results from this arrangement that the state of New York has at the present day forty representatives, and only two senators; the state of Delaware has two senators, and only one representative; the state of Delaware is therefore equal to the state of New York in the senate, while the latter has forty times the influence of the former in the house of representatives. Thus, if the minority of the nation preponderates in the senate, ...

— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al

... bottom of the page; but I have often repented of my compliance.] The conquests of our language and literature are not confined to Europe alone, and a writer who succeeds in London, is speedily read on the banks of the Delaware and the Ganges. ...

— Memoirs of My Life and Writings • Edward Gibbon

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