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Definition of Beckley
1. Noun. A city in southern West Virginia.
Group relationships: Mountain State, West Virginia, Wv
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beckley
Literary usage of Beckley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records by Charles William Manwaring (1902)
"I Richard Beckley of Wethersfield doe make this my last Will ... Also I doe
order & Will that my son Nathaniel Beckley shall maintain his Mother, ..."
2. Sketches of Debate in the First Senate of the United States, in 1789-90-91 by William Maclay, George Washington Harris (1880)
"Mr. Beckley, (Clerk of the House of Representatives,) announced that he brought
a new resolve, for the safe-keeping of prisoners, &c. 2. ..."
3. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1896)
"CHAPTER XXXVII THE RETREAT FROM Beckley NEVER would the Countess believe that
brother of hers, idiot as by nature he might be, and heir to unnumbered ..."
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