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Definition of Mount Vernon
1. Noun. The former residence of George Washington in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac river.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mount Vernon
Literary usage of Mount Vernon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1893)
"7b' An English Gentleman's Visit to Mount Vernon in 1785. AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT
MADE TO WASHINGTON AT Mount Vernon, BY AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, IN 1785. ..."
2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1898)
"To Thomas Law. lie will be glad to see Law and Mrs. Law whenever it suits them
to visit Mount Vernon; he had wished to purchase a lot on New Jersey Avenue, ..."
3. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"In 1880 Mount Vernon was the third village in population in A\ ... Mount Vernon
is the first station on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and is ..."
4. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1860)
"Removed from the heated throngs of cities, his diary denotes a cheerful and
healthful life at Mount Vernon, devoted to those rural occupations in which he ..."
5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1898)
"Mount Vernon, Sept. 22, 1799. To Presly Thornton. [William] Washington has
acquainted him of the ill health of [Charles Cotesworth] Pinckney's wife; ..."
6. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1893)
"AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT MADE TO WASHINGTON AT Mount Vernon, BY AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
... "We arrived at Mount Vernon by one o'clock— so-called by the General's ..."
7. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1893)
"7b' An English Gentleman's Visit to Mount Vernon in 1785. AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT
MADE TO WASHINGTON AT Mount Vernon, BY AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, IN 1785. ..."
8. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1898)
"To Thomas Law. lie will be glad to see Law and Mrs. Law whenever it suits them
to visit Mount Vernon; he had wished to purchase a lot on New Jersey Avenue, ..."
9. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"In 1880 Mount Vernon was the third village in population in A\ ... Mount Vernon
is the first station on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and is ..."
10. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1860)
"Removed from the heated throngs of cities, his diary denotes a cheerful and
healthful life at Mount Vernon, devoted to those rural occupations in which he ..."
11. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1898)
"Mount Vernon, Sept. 22, 1799. To Presly Thornton. [William] Washington has
acquainted him of the ill health of [Charles Cotesworth] Pinckney's wife; ..."
12. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1893)
"AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT MADE TO WASHINGTON AT Mount Vernon, BY AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
... "We arrived at Mount Vernon by one o'clock— so-called by the General's ..."
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