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  • Manomet nearer on the right; opposite them, on the left, Duxbury Beach comes down, and ends in the promontory which holds the Gurnet Lights.

    The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery

  • And then in April, the familiar vessel, whose outlines were as much a part of the seascape as the Gurnet or the bluffs of Manomet, vanished: vanished as completely as if she had never been.

    The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery

  • Empire of Trapezus from 1204 was not captured till 1470 by Manomet

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Custodians of their own fortunes, they now established trading-posts at several places on the coast -- at Manomet, on Buzzard's Bay (1627), at Kennebec (1628), and at Penobscot and Machias Bay (1629).

    England in America, 1580-1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1894

  • [Illustration: THE _Mayflower_ IN PLYMOUTH HARBOR.] [Footnote 6: Manomet (Man'o-met).] [Footnote 7: See paragraph 46.] 67.

    The Beginner's American History 1882

  • Young, with almost equal recklessness, says: "The other headland of the bay," alluded to by Coppin, was Manomet Point, and the river was probably the North River in Scituate; but there are no "great navigable river and good harbor" in conjunction in the neighborhood of Manomet, or of the

    The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876

  • Even from the Atlantic side we overlooked the Bay, and saw to Manomet Point in Plymouth, and better from that side because it was the highest.

    Cape Cod 1865

  • Billington had wandered as far as Manomet, and that Canacum, the sachem of that place, had sent him on with some Nauset braves who were visiting him, as a present or perhaps hostage to Aspinet, chief of the Nausets and Pamets.

    Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims 1862

  • "Wooing -- what -- I-- I know not fairly," stammered John Alden, but the captain still gazing upon Hither Manomet, where now the purple bloom of twilight was replacing the glory of the sunset, marked not the pallor stealing the red from beneath the brown of the young fellow's cheek, nor heard the discordant falter of his voice.

    Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims 1862

  • For reply the captain took the pipe from his mouth, and with the stem pointed to Manomet, where mile after mile of fresh young verdure rose steeply against the rosy eastern sky, while the sun sinking behind what was to be the Captain's Hill shot a flood of golden glory across the placid bay cresting each little wave with radiance, and burying itself at last among the whispering foliage of the mount.

    Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims 1862

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