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Shirley

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Shirley

Community in Brookhaven town, southeastern New York, on Long Island's southern shore, 6 km/4 mi west of Center Moriches; population (1990) 22,900. It is primarily residential.

Brookhaven Airport is just to the north and Mastic is to the northeast.

Shirley

Historic site in southeast Virginia, at the junction of the James and Appomattox rivers, across from Bermuda Hundred. Its manor house, built in 1723, was occupied by Union general George McClellan during the Civil War siege of Petersburg, 14 km/9 mi to the southwest.
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In this dilemma Governor Shirley fixed upon a wealthy merchant, named William Pepperell, who was pretty well known and liked among the people.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
It did not appear to me that--in short, you know, Dr Shirley must have a curate, and you had secured his promise.
Persuasion by Austen, Jane View in context
But her eyes were as black and brilliant, her cheeks as rosy, and her dimples as enchanting, as in the long-ago days when she and Anne Shirley had vowed eternal friendship in the garden at Orchard Slope.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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