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SITKA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Sitka" is a part of...):
AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)
Context examples:
Sitka Charley delayed reply until he had lighted his pipe.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
And from Sitka, Old Kinoos, who was Young Kinoos in those days, fled away with me, a babe in his arms, along the islands in the midst of the sea.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
We limp into Circle City, and even I, Sitka Charley, am tired.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Sometimes she sit in canoe and is thinking far away, her eyes like that, all empty. She does not see Sitka Charley, nor the ice, nor the snow. She is far away.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
She laugh and says: 'Sitka Charley, that is none of your business. I give you one thousand dollars take me to Dawson. That only is your business.'
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
And even I, Sitka Charley, am tired. Will we go on forever this way without end? I do not know.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
And I say, 'Sitka Charley is no pick-and-shovel man.'
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Sitka Charley smoked his pipe and gazed thoughtfully at the Police Gazette illustration on the wall.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
"Why?" asked Sitka Charley.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Sometimes, when I am walking in dreams this way, I have strange thoughts. Why does Sitka Charley live? I ask myself. Why does Sitka Charley work hard, and go hungry, and have all this pain? For seven hundred and fifty dollars a month, I make the answer, and I know it is a foolish answer. Also is it a true answer. And after that never again do I care for money. For that day a large wisdom came to me. There was a great light, and I saw clear, and I knew that it was not for money that a man must live, but for a happiness that no man can give, or buy, or sell, and that is beyond all value of all money in the world.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
