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"Rockfish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... their way from England to take the town of Wilmington. These Scotchmen, assembling at Cross Creek by Governor Martin's orders, were in arms to force their way across the country and join the expected British army, Colonel Moore at once met them at Rockfish Creek, where he fortified his camp and awaited an attack. But he soon found this would not occur, so he sent Colonel Lillington and Captain Ashe with two hundred and fifty then to occupy a bridge over Moore's Creek that he supposed would intercept General ...
— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore
... to another and even vaster, leading down to the western sea—the unknown South Sea marked as the limits of their possessions by the gallants of King Charles when, generations earlier, and careless of all these intervening generations of toil and danger, they had paused at the summit of Rockfish Gap in the Appalachians and waved a gay hand each toward the unknown continent that lay they knew not ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough |
Words linked to "Rockfish" : striped bass, striper, Roccus, Sebastodes, sea bass, scorpaenid fish, Sebastodes caurinus, redfish, Roccus saxatilis, vermillion rockfish, Sebastodes marinus, genus Sebastodes, saltwater fish, scorpaenid, red rockfish, rosefish, Sebastodes ruberrimus, rasher |
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