Example sentences for: otis

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  • Head down Joy Street to the African Meeting House (see page 34) and to 141 Cambridge Street for the Harrison Gray Otis House (guided tours Wednesday–Sunday 11am–4pm), the first house that Bulfinch designed for prominent lawyer, member of Congress, third Mayor of Boston, and developer of Beacon Hill, Mr. Otis.

  • I was advised aircraft might be sent from Otis."

  • The adjacent Granary Burying Ground contains the graves of many heroes: John Hancock, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, James Otis, the victims of the Boston Massacre, Robert Treat Paine (the prosecutor at the Boston Massacre trial), and Peter Faneuil.

  • Colonel Marr, the battle commander at NEADS, and General Arnold, the CONR commander, both recall that the planes were held on battle stations, as opposed to scrambling, because they might be called on to relieve the Otis fighters over New York City if a refueling tanker was not located, and also because of the general uncertainty of the situation in the sky.

  • The popular use of the name in the US in the 1870s must have been in honor of Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909), since the surnames of Civil War officers were often used in baptism.


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