A river in northwestern Florida formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River at the Florida border

Usage examples of apalachicola.

So, I was hoping you could sniff around the cops in Apalachicola and see if anything's been reported.

I thought maybe you got the lowdown on the cops in Apalachicola, or you fished around for some general information about whether they've had any trouble down that way.

By seven, I was in my Cherokee cruising down Scenic 98 toward Apalachicola and the causeway to St.

After an hour of nothing, the road bumped into the quick-mart-and-fast-food outskirts of Apalachicola and then eased into that quaint seaside town's Victorian architecture and palm-lined streets.

George and Apalachicola and bang on doors or bang on heads, or whatever it is you do, to get a lead on who might be trying to kill our client.

The young captain explained that a private yacht, for example, could have left Brazil, sailed along the Central American coast, and cut over to Apalachicola Bay without filing a report or leaving any record of its route.

I said, "The reason I called is that I've tried every way I can think of — short of going to Apalachicola and renting a boat — to find out who may be cruising from South America to Dog Island with merchandise and refugees on board.

I sat on the sofa and waited for the Apalachicola Volunteer Fire Department.

So I told the part-time firemen of Apalachicola that I'd been trying to remove a smudge from the frame around the painting with some cleaning fluid I had found under the kitchen sink.

Tin r oofed seafood shacks and shrimp-processing plants fronted the street and backed up to long, concrete docks that reached out into Apalachicola Bay like gray fingers separated by oily water and a scattering of white shrimp boats with red and blue trim.

Even if he had recovered from his hurt knee and stabbed tire, he would assume I had turned west toward Apalachicola, Panama City, and Mobile.

He just said you were somebody I could ask about boats in Apalachicola Bay without getting into trouble for asking.

He paused, and, as if mentioning an afterthought, said, "And you should know that a deputy sheriff in Apalachicola, a Mickey Burns, has been asking questions about you.

George, a speeding Apalachicola Sheriff's Department cruiser met me on Highway 98, going, I suspected, where I had come from.

So Tom, you weren't around to ask, so I just told him the yacht was spotted in Apalachicola Bay on such and such a date, just to see what he'd say.