NOUN
- a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there
How To Use Harper's Ferry In A Sentence
- For example, downtown Frederick, Md., is within driving distance of several shrines for Civil War enthusiasts, including Gettysburg, Antietam and Harper's Ferry. America's Best Neighborhoods 2010
- It was in this spirit that I was able to roger that houri in Borneo during the Batang Lupar battle, whimpering fearfully the while, and do justice to Mrs Popplewell while in flight from the outraged townsfolk of Harper's Ferry. Watershed
- It was true, and everyone who was through Harper's Ferry will tell you the same - the chancier things got, the calmer grew J.B., as though he were in the grip of some soothing drug. THE NUMBERS
- Throughout his memoirs, he revels in reflected glory, the more so when it is ingloriously undeserved, and when it comes to "dining out", Harper's Ferry plainly ranks with Balaclava and Little Big Horn and Cawnpore. THE NUMBERS
- But I didn't, thank God, and as any of you who have read my other memoirs will have guessed, I'd not have been within three thousand miles of Harper's Ferry, or blasted Brown, but for the ghastliest series of mischances: three hellish coincidences - three, mark you! THE NUMBERS
- As with Ahab and Ishmael, we encounter John Brown through the entranced observations of Owen, and, like Ishmael, Owen is essentially the last man standing (in Ishmael's case, swimming), surviving the raid on Harper's Ferry to, eventually, tell us the tale of what led up to this singular event. A Force of Nature
