Franconia Notch love

Franconia Notch

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A natural passage through the White Mountains in northern New Hampshire. The area was once noted for the Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation in the shape of a face that collapsed in 2003.

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Examples

  • Traffic thinned in the lane ahead of them as Brock made the turn that would take them on the road south through Franconia Notch.

    Heart of Stone Dailey, Janet 1980

  • Traffic thinned in the lane ahead of them as Brock made the turn that would take them on the road south through Franconia Notch.

    Heart Of Stone Dailey, Janet 1980

  • A few weeks ago, for example, I walked again up the mountain road that climbs out of the Franconia Valley into the Franconia Notch.

    The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877

  • In Jefferson, in Gorham, in the Franconia Notch, in short, wherever I went, there was no difficulty about hearing the music, and little about seeing the wren; but it was provoking that eye and ear could never be brought to bear witness to the same bird.

    Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

  • Our first excursion -- I speak of the four who traveled on foot -- was to the Franconia Notch.

    The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877

  • He was like my Jonathan Gordon, my old fisherman who lived up in the Franconia Notch.

    The Under Dog Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • Up in the Franconia Notch, in a little hollow under

    The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • And he admired the ingenuity which had carried this road through nine miles of shabby firs and balsams, in a way absolutely devoid of interest, in order to heighten the effect of the surprise at the end in the sudden arrival at the Franconia Notch.

    Their Pilgrimage Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • If it were, we could account for the catastrophe, a few years ago, in the Franconia Notch flume.

    Their Pilgrimage Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • If it were, we could account for the catastrophe, a few years ago, in the Franconia Notch flume.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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