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Dawson

[ daw-suhn ]

noun

  1. Sir John William, 1820–99, Canadian geologist and educator.
  2. William Levi, 1899–1990, U.S. composer and conductor.
  3. a town in NW Canada, at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers: former capital of the Yukon Territory.


Dawson

/ ˈdɔːsən /

noun

  1. a town in NW Canada, in the Yukon on the Yukon River: a boom town during the Klondike gold rush (at its height in 1899). Pop: 1251 (2001)


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But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.

Jenny Slate and Rosario Dawson make out at midnight because everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.

Joey was strong, resourceful, plucky, goofy, and vulnerable—and, of course, you hoped she would pick Pacey over Dawson.

Mass shootings are also not unprecedented, having happened at Ecole Polytechnique in 1989 and at Dawson College in 2006.

Instead, LaFrieda, Hanna-Korpi, and Dawson all see a general back-to-basics approach from hereon in.

The cattle train started toward Dawson about the same time, and Champlain's Landing was left to the captain's party.

He's going to winter on a claim of his near Dawson, and wants me to work for him up there, but I don't know about it.

Have Miss Dawson at station to identify him when train arrives.

He has been identified by Miss Dawson; that is proof enough.

Dawson surrendered, and from that hour to the present, Oregon has been ruled by law.

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