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Waco   /wˈeɪkoʊ/   Listen
Waco

noun
1.
A city in east central Texas.





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"Waco" Quotes from Famous Books



... (1908)," says Mr. Forbush, "ornithologists believe that the Eskimo curlew is practically extinct, as only a few specimens have been recorded since the beginning of the twentieth century." The very last record is of two specimens collected at Waco, York County, Nebraska, in March, 1911, and recorded by Mr. August Eiche. Of course, it is possible that other individuals may still survive; but so far as our knowledge extends, the species is ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday
... forty-five and for years I've kept in motion most of the time. Alone of great travellers William Jennings Bryan has reviewed more water-tanks than I. I find the same delight in Butte, Peoria, Galesburg, Des Moines, Ashtabula, and Bangor, in Tallahassee, Birmingham, and Waco, that others seek in London, Paris, and Vienna—and it's all American stuff—business of flags flying and Constitution being chanted offstage by a choir of a million voices! I've lived in coal-camps in Colorado, wintered with Maine lumbermen, hopped the ties ...
— The Madness of May • Meredith Nicholson


Words linked to "Waco" :   metropolis, urban center, Texas, TX, city, Lone-Star State


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