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Salem   /sˈeɪləm/   Listen
Salem

noun
1.
Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.  Synonym: capital of Oregon.
2.
A city in northeastern Massachusetts; site of the witchcraft trials in 1692.
3.
A city in southern India.



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"Salem" Quotes from Famous Books



... began when I was a school-girl in Salem. Then he lived in Amesbury, on the "shining Merrimack," as he calls it, with his sister, a ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 • Various
... religious men who have wanted an excuse for a long time to rat," said Mr Tadpole. "We must get Sir Robert to make some kind of a religious move, and that will secure Sir Litany Lax and young Mr Salem." ...
— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
... could guard so well Old Salem's happy ground, As those eternal arms of love That ...
— The Psalms of David - Imitated in the Language of The New Testament - And Applied to The Christian State and Worship • Isaac Watts
... previously, they chose a place on the west side of the bay and named the little settlement "Plymouth," after the last English port from which they had sailed. Farther north, still in Vinland, they soon founded two other towns, "Salem" and "Boston." Those three settlements have ever since been important centers of energy and intelligence in Massachusetts, as well as memorials of the Norse occupation ...
— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson
... continued to increase his numbers with his advance. His present object was the chastisement of Col. Harrison, who was in force upon Lynch's Creek; but his progress in this direction was suddenly arrested by his scouts, who brought him tidings of large gatherings of Tories in and about Salem and the fork of Black River. In this quarter, one Colonel Tynes had made his appearance, and had summoned the people generally, as good subjects of his majesty, to take the field against their countrymen. It was necessary to check this rising, and to scatter it before it gained too much ...
— The Life of Francis Marion • William Gilmore Simms


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