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Decatur

noun

United States naval officer remembered for his heroic deeds (1779-1820). Synonym: Stephen Decatur.

A city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here.

A town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River.

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"Decatur" Quotes from Famous Books

... business anxieties he turns to literature with a whole-souled devotion. His home friends tried to secure for him the position of Secretary of the Legation in London; his brother William wrote that Commodore Decatur was keeping open for his acceptance the office of Chief Clerk in the Navy Department; but Irving turned the offers aside. Irving is usually imaged as a sunshiny, genial, easy-going gentleman into whose blood little of the iron ...

— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb

... compendium of shams. She knew whether the bridal couple, who announced that they would spend their honeymoon in the East, were really going to Niagara Falls, or whether they were going to spend a week with his relatives in Decatur, Illinois. She knew every woman in town who bought two prizes for her whist party—one to give if her friend should win the prize, and another to give if the woman she hated should win. With the diabolical eye of a fiend she detected the woman who was wearing the dry-cleaned cast-off ...

— In Our Town • William Allen White

... of my birth, my parents lived on a farm adjoining the town of Decatur, in the State of Iowa. Later the town was enlarged until it included Father's farm, which was sold for town lots. My parents remained in Iowa until I was a year old, and then moved to Illinois, where they remained for two years. When I was three years old, they settled in ...

— Trials and Triumphs of Faith • Mary Cole

Words linked to "Decatur" : city, Prairie State, Land of Lincoln, Illinois, al, il, Heart of Dixie, town, naval officer, urban center, Camellia State, metropolis, Alabama