What is "decatur"

Usage examples of "decatur".

The ketch in which Decatur made his daring and successful expedition was christened the Intrepid, and fitted up as a floating mine with the purpose of sending her into the harbor, and exploding her in the midst of the Tripolitan shipping.

It had taken them several hours to get to Decatur this morning because they'd taken a circuitous route through Champaign and Springfield.

If he isn’t at the hotel, go to the barrooms on Decatur Street and ask for him.

My great-grandpa was one of Dearborn's riflemen at the second battle of Saratoga, and Grandpa sailed the seas with Decatur and Bainbridge.

I kept my fingers crossed through Sidney, Sadorus, Cerro Gordo, Decatur, and Blue Mound, and coasted into Taylorville on the fumes.

Out behind the Decatur Civic Center, sandwiched in between a food delivery truck and a video truck from Television North America, it was invisible.

These years of labor were interlarded with night courses and occasional day enrollments, though none more than three semesters in a row (after Decatur, when he could afford it).

Lunch was in a reserved room in the back of an old oyster bar on Decatur in the French Quarter, and paid for- by the taxpayers of Harrison County.

When he was playing second base for the Decatur Commodores, he'd had to get off accurate throws to first with a runner bearing down on him with spikes high.

That is what Aaron Green saw as he was climbing into the back of the big GODS truck out in back of the Decatur Civic Center in Decatur, Illinois.