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Definition of Lynchburg

1. Noun. A city in central Virginia.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lynchburg

Literary usage of Lynchburg

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

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"The fight on Saturday, near this city, says the lynchburg Republican, ... Hunter said :hat he had fifty thousand men, and could take lynchburg easily—that ..."

2. Virginia Law Books: Essays and Bibliographies by William Hamilton Bryson (2000)
"Revised Ordinances of the Corporation of lynchburg: Preceded by the Acts of ... Ordinances of the City of lynchburg, Revised and Passed by the Council in ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"The method of) appointing policemen for the city of lynchburg, and which was ... The duties of the members of the police force of the city of lynchburg, ..."

4. Forty Years of Active Service: Being Some History of the War Between the by Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (1904)
"From Lexington he passed on to the vicinity of lynchburg, by way of the Peaks of Otter, and there he reached the zenith of his fame—if his defeat of Jones ..."

5. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"They say lynchburg and East Tennessee now occupy the mind of Gen. Lee; and they know every disposition of our forces from day to day sooner than our own ..."

6. Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania: A Connected and Chronological Record of the by Alexander Kelly McClure (1905)
"Chambersburg Destroyed by the Brutal Vandalism of Hunter in the lynchburg Campaign—Its Destruction Made Possible by Hunter's Military Incompetency—Reports ..."

7. Mineral Resources of Virginia by Thomas Leonard Watson, Ray Smith Bassler, Heinrich Ries, Roy Jay Holden (1907)
"Although admirably suited for many uses, practically no development of the syenite areas in Virginia has been made. 3. GNEISSES. The lynchburg Area. ..."

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