Lexic.us

Definition of Long island sound

1. Noun. A sound between Long Island and Connecticut.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long Island Sound

Literary usage of Long island sound

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Coast Pilot: Atlantic Coast. Part IV. From Point Judith to New by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Herbert Gouverneur Ogden, John Ross, Herbert Cornelius Graves, Harry L. Ford (1899)
"long island sound has some shoals lying alongshore, but in mid-sound there ... In Block Island Sound and in the eastern part of long island sound fogs are ..."

2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1890)
"DISASTERS ON long island sound 1827-1888 A steamboat filled with passengers, gliding over the surface of the water, forms a pleasant sight of a sunny ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"The waters of Long Island sound are "high seas," within the meaning of the federal constitution and acts of congress, except such parts as are within the ..."

4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"... ON long island sound. EM LEETE. The tautog, or blackfish, of the New England coast while not strictly a game fish, is yet quite a fighter. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The waterways of New York comprise that portion of the Atlantic Ocean washing Long Island on the south, and that part of long island sound washing Long ..."

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