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  • At seven miles south of the Blue-grass Swamp saw a heavy fog to the east, in the same place that I saw the black fog in coming up; it must be caused by a large body of water in that direction.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • Anybody who knows the "Blue-grass region" will understand what the latter means.

    The American Missionary β€” Volume 44, No. 04, April, 1890 Various

  • I usually rode Blue-grass for Edith in the jumping event.

    The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928

  • Come, Edith, let's go and have a look at Blue-grass.

    The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928

  • Edith's Arrow, Pierre, and Blue-grass had won some sort of a ribbon for the last half-dozen years.

    The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928

  • Smith, defeating the Union force which opposed him, occupied Lexington, the home of Henry Clay and the centre of the Blue-grass region, the garden of the State.

    Chapter V 1917

  • As one who was there reports, β€œThe amber milk of the Blue-grass cow flowed in plenty.”

    Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

  • The words "Louisville and Nashville" spoke creamily of Blue-grass.

    Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

  • One of them took off his hat, lifted both hands above his head, and then they all barked out a series of barbaric yells with a long shout of Gray's full name at the end, while the Blue-grass lad stood among them, flushed and embarrassed but not at all displeased.

    The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891

  • So all that day and through all that night he fled for the big settlements of the Blue-grass and but half consciously toward his mother and Mavis Hawn.

    The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891

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