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Cape Cod

noun

A Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area.

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... mean to the Phoenicians," her father said. "I mean that the world never saw braver nor more worthy sailors than those who called the wind-swept hamlets of Cape Cod their home ports. The Silts were all master-mariners. This Captain Abe is a bachelor, I believe. You could ...

— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper

... Bartholomew Gosnold, who had first sailed for the strange new world some five years before. He had landed far to the north of the river where the ships now rested—on a colder, sterner shore. There he had discovered and named Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. Christopher Newport too had sailed before in Western waters, but further to the southward. He was an enemy of the Spaniard wherever he found him, and had left a name of terror ...

— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson

... hope that my partiality to this island will be justified. Perhaps you hardly know that such an one exists in the neighbourhood of Cape Cod. What has happened here, has and will happen everywhere else. Give mankind the full rewards of their industry, allow them to enjoy the fruit of their labour under the peaceable shade of their vines and fig-trees, leave their native activity unshackled and free, like a fair stream without dams ...

— Letters from an American Farmer • Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

... from the depths of the ocean. She soon made friends with the boy of eight and the girl of ten, who were included in the family of her persecutor. After breakfast she went on deck with them, and learned that the vessel was off Cape Cod. Captain Gauley was very civil to her; but she did not allude to the events of the previous evening. He was a bad man, and she could hardly ...

— Freaks of Fortune - or, Half Round the World • Oliver Optic

... laughed as they told about the first Monday morning at Cape Cod, when they all went ashore ...

— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

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