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lyons

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 1008 Housing Units (2000): 395 Land area (2000): 0.864623 sq. miles (2.239363 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.864623 sq. miles (2.239363 sq. km) FIPS code: 44300 Located within: Oregon ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in France at the confluence of the Rhone and the Saône, from Gallo-Latin Lugudunum , literally "fort of Lug." The adjectival form is Lyonnaise .

Usage examples of lyons.

Smyrna, people in Sofia, people in Belgrade, in Adrianople, in Paris, in Lyons, people all over Europe, who could answer them.

Lyons pointed to the silenced Colt autopistol he held, then pointed to the knife in the hand of the Yaqui.

Lyons pointed the Colt autopistol straight down at the gasping soldier and fired once.

Historians may point out diversities and dissimilarities between the teaching of the Waldenses, the Albigenses, the Henricans, the Poor Men of Lyons, the Cathari, the Vaudois, the Bogomiles, and the Manichees, but they were in reality branches and variants of the same dark fraternity, just as the Third International, the Anarchists, the Nihilists, and the Bolsheviks are in every sense, save the mere label, entirely identical.

As she chatted, indicating various points of interest in the town, Lyons kept glancing sideways at Bic.

Many were the cities of Gaul, Marseilles, Arles, Nismes, Narbonne, Thoulouse, Bourdeaux, Autun, Vienna, Lyons, Langres, and Treves, whose ancient condition might sustain an equal, and perhaps advantageous comparison with their present state.

Lyons passed the chain behind the heavy crossbolts, knotted the chain, then secured it to itself with the end hook.

When I awoke the next morning I wrote to Zenobia to buy three dresses of the finest Lyons silk for three young ladies of rank.

Boerhaave, Pare, and Fabricius Hildanus all speak of this untoward effect of venery, and in modern times Poncet has made observations at a hospital in Lyons which prove that during the process of healing wounds are unduly and harmfully influenced by coitus, and cites confirmatory instances.

Pat Collins, and I drive for the Mercury Freighting Company, Dave Lyons will back me.

Lyons had checked his sources and learned that on the Guatemalan street market, one dollar bought one quetzal and forty eight centavos.

Michel Jouvet, a French neurologist at the University of Lyons, has found that dream sleep is triggered in the pons, which, while it resides in the hindbrain, is a late and essentially mammalian evolutionary development.

Lyons caught sight of the four Klansman hauling Kelly and Mustav away.

KGB hardman, posing as a Klansman, continued to speak, Jackson and Kelly crawled back to Lyons and Mustav.

Lyons gave the boy a handful of brilliantly colored Sri Lankan rupee notes.