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Sing Sing

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Sing Sing: see Ossining Ossining , village (1990 pop. 22,582), Westchester co., SE N.Y., on the Hudson River; settled c.1750, inc. 1813 as Sing Sing, renamed 1901. Mainly residential, Ossining produces medical instruments and pharmaceuticals.
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Sing Sing
notoriously harsh state prison at Ossining, New York. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 219]


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The prison for the State at Sing Sing is, on the other hand, a model jail.
He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper; that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire.
 
 
 
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