Lexic.us

Definition of Charles river

1. Noun. A river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Charles River

Literary usage of Charles river

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"charles river Bridge 1824. Kept, of committee of both Houses to whom were ... Rept. on records and proceedings of proprietors of charles river Bridge. ..."

2. Daniel Webster: The Expounder of the Constitution by Everett Pepperrell Wheeler (1905)
"Even before 1640, a ferry had been maintained between Boston and Charles- town over the charles river. This continued, until, in 1785, a corporation was ..."

3. The Constitutional Law of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1910)
"charles river Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co. The charles river Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co.28 case is another case in point. ..."

4. Daniel Webster: The Expounder of the Constitution by Everett Pepperrell Wheeler (1905)
"Even before 1640, a ferry had been maintained between Boston and Charles- town over the charles river. This continued, until, in 1785, a corporation was ..."

5. Cases on American Constitutional Law by Lawrence Boyd Evans (1907)
"THE PROPRIETORS OF THE charles river BRIDGE v. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE WARREN BRIDGE ET AL. 11 Peters, 420. Decided 1837. Error to the supreme judicial court ..."

6. State Sanitation: A Review of the Work of the Massachusetts State Board of by George Chandler Whipple (1917)
"Following this report the construction of the charles river Basin was begun. Special Report, 1894, p. vii. — GCW] THE undersigned, members of the joint ..."

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