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Amos

Book of the Old Testament written around 750 BC. One of the prophets, Amos was a shepherd who foretold the destruction of Israel because of the people's abandonment of their faith.

Amos

Town in Abitibi County, northwest Québec, Canada; population (1991) 13,800. It is situated 390 km/240 mi northwest of Ottawa, near the head of the Harricana River, in the rich farmland of the east ‘Clay Belt’. Established in 1914 on the Canadian Northern (Canadian National) Railway, it depended economically on agriculture and lumbering. It has a number of large saw and paper mills.



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It rolled off to one side and laid there quite quiet but I didn't dare move and I don't know what would have become of me if Amos Cowan hadn't come along that very minute with a lantern.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
This was the coming to Riverboro of the Reverend Amos Burch and wife, returned missionaries from Syria.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
That was Amos Struver; and then there was Harry Adams, the assistant clerk, a pale, scholarly-looking man, who came from Massachusetts, of Pilgrim stock.
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