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corsica

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 354 Housing Units (2000): 157 Land area (2000): 0.466479 sq. miles (1.208174 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.466479 sq. miles (1.208174 sq. km) FIPS code: 16304 Located within: Pennsylvania ...

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Corsica is a large French island in the Mediterranean Sea. It may also refer to: Corsica (album) , a folk music album by Petru Guelfucci Corsica, Pennsylvania , a town in the United States Corsica, South Dakota , a town in the United States Chevrolet Corsica ...

Usage examples of corsica.

At last the chair of physics fell vacant at the college of Ajaccio, the salary being 72 pounds sterling, and he left for Corsica.

In the spring of this year, having published my Account of Corsica, with the Journal of a Tour to that Island, I returned to London, very desirous to see Dr. Johnson, and hear him upon the subject.

Shortly afterward, Nelson was detached with a small squadron, to cooperate with General Paoli and the Anti-Gallican party in Corsica.

As he maneuvered the rented Corsica out of the parking lot, snow splat ted against his windshield in big, wet flakes, and he turned his wipers on to keep up with the pace.

He was a man of forty, and styled himself son of the late Theodore, the pretender to the throne of Corsica, who had died miserably in London fourteen years before, after having been imprisoned for debt for seven years.

Seneca, from his own experience, has deplored and exaggerated the miserable state of Corsica, ^97 and the plenty of Sardinia was overbalanced by the unwholesome quality of the air.

After lingering there many years, he was released under an act of insolvency, in consequence of which he made over the kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors, and died shortly after his deliverance.

There an enterprising merchant from Corsica had imported three of the large china chamber pots containing on their sides portraits of Franklin, and on their insides glazed representations of the coonskin cap.

When he thought of Paris, take-out quiche-to-go stores springing up where guillotines might have been, a six-year-old Napoleon munching Dubble Bubble in Corsica, he felt like the archangel Michael on speed.

Anxious as you may suppose I was to behold and comfort my dear sister, I lost no time in hastening to Corsica, but when I arrived at Rogliano I found a house of mourning, the consequences of a scene so horrible that the neighbors remember and speak of it to this day.

During his four months' land service in Corsica, he had lost all his ship furniture, owing to the movements of a camp.

The Turkish freighter that had been running refugees illegally from Corsica to Lisbon had lost its British navicert, and could not transit Gibraltar.

Sardinia and Corsica surrendered to an officer, who carried, instead of a sword, the head of the valiant Zano.