Evangeline (passenger train)
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Etymology
Invented by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow when he began to research on his latest poem Evangeline about Acadian lovers deported from French-Canada.
Quotations
- 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie:
- Half-way down the shore Evangeline waited in silence,
- Not overcome with grief, but strong in the hour of affliction.
- 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XIV:
- "What's the little missy's name?" said Tom, at last, when he thought matters were ripe to push such an inquiry.
- "Evangeline St. Clare," said the little one, "though papa and everybody else call me Eva."