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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of northeast Kentucky flowing about 515 km (320 mi) northwest to the Ohio River at Covington.
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It would connect with the proposed hiking / biking trail planned along both sides of the Licking River known as the Licking River Greenway.
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It would connect with the proposed hiking / biking trail planned along both sides of the Licking River known as the Licking River Greenway.
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Chapter 13 -- Eight-Face Mound There was a different feel to the land around Licking River.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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He had a low fire going, and he had called two fish out of the Licking River.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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Tying his flatbed up on the bank of the Licking River, securing it the best he could, he caught sight of something red on its bottom.
Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987
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Outraged more by their folly in believing land was holy than by the disturbances of their peace, they growled on the banks of Licking River, sighed in the trees on Catherine Street and rode the wind above the pig yards.
Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987
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In America a number of small suspension bridges had collapsed under droves of cattle, including one at Covington, Kentucky, over the Licking River, just a few years before Roebling commenced his Cincinnati Bridge.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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Riddle's and Martin's stations, at the forks of Licking River, with six pieces of artillery.
Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley
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They had marched beyond the Blue Licks, to a remarkable bend of the main fork of Licking River, about forty-three miles from Lexington, where we overtook them on the 19th day.
Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley
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Virginia and North Carolina, for visiting the newly-discovered regions and locating lands; and several daring adventurers, at different times during this period, penetrated to the head-waters of the Licking River, and did some surveying; but it was not till the year 1774 that the whites obtained any permanent foothold in Kentucky.
Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley
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