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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A village of southeast New York on the eastern end of Long Island on an inlet of Long Island Sound. A major whaling port in the early 1800s, it is today primarily a resort.
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Examples
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This all began for me out in Sag Harbor, which is a town of 2,000 people, and within an the first strike there were flags on every house in the village.
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Howe supposed this part of the country to be so completely secured by the armed vessels which incessantly traversed the Sound, that he confided the protection of the stores deposited at a small port called Sag Harbor to a schooner with twelve guns and a company of infantry.
Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903
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Bondwick, seven miles from Brunswick, 1200 in number, were surprised and routed by Cornwallis, while on the other hand the American Colonel Meigs carried out a most dashing expedition by crossing to Long Island and destroying a quantity of stores at a place called Sag Harbor, burning a dozen brigs and sloops which lay there, taking 90 prisoners, and returning safely across the Sound.
True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence 1867
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Howe supposed this part of the country to be so completely secured by the armed vessels which incessantly traversed the Sound, that he confided the protection of the stores deposited at a small port called Sag Harbor to a schooner with twelve guns and a company of infantry.
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched John Frederick Schroeder 1852
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It was called Sag Harbor and it was a couple blocks south of Restaurant Row - maybe it was 44th between 8th and 9th?
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Maslin on Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead: 'Sag Harbor' isn't about much more than the hilariously trifling intricacies of this self-discovery process.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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Maslin on Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead: 'Sag Harbor' isn't about much more than the hilariously trifling intricacies of this self-discovery process.
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers Omnivoracious 2009
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Kellwood, of Chesterfield, Mo., owns a stable of medium-price department-store clothing brands such as Sag Harbor and has licenses to produce clothing under the Calvin Klein and Liz Claiborne labels.
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Some tunes on there really took my breath away: the glistening sunrise on Malibu beach softness of 'Sag Harbor'; the five and a half minute lush meander of 'Callin' Atlanta '; the enchanting' My Antoinette '.
unpopular alistair fitchett 2009
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They have a summer home in Azurest in Sag Harbor which is a younger community than the one in the Vineyard, but I do remember when most of the residents were Black and intellectual.
Courting Destiny 2008
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