Definitions
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- noun Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
- noun a North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic
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Examples
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They were surprisingly narrow, a mere strip along both sides of the St. Lawrence from a short distance beyond the Ottawa on the west, to the end of the Gasps peninsula on the east.
The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Oscar Douglas Skelton 1909
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In this group of great rivers the St. Lawrence is the most remarkable.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Having made his observations from the different posts which surround the Gulf that receives into its bosom the waters of the great river of Canada, since called the St. Lawrence, he conversed as well as he could with the savages, whenever an opportunity offered, in order to study their characters, and thought he occasionally discovered in them dispositions favorable to Christianity.
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America, upon the gulf and entrance of a great river called St. Lawrence in Canada; into the which, navigation may be made both on the south and north side of this island.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland Edward Hayes
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Canada, or near the St. Lawrence, which is the natural division for
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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At Saint Donan, in Brittany, people believe that if children touch the young wrens in the nest, they will suffer from the fire of St. Lawrence, that is, from pimples on the face, legs, and so on.
Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament. § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals 1922
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At Saint Donan, in Brittany, people believe that if children touch the young wrens in the nest, they will suffer from the fire of St. Lawrence, that is, from pimples on the face, legs, and so on.
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At the foot of the Heights, the broad basin of the St. Lawrence was a-drift in the dusk with fluttering pennons.
Out To Win The Story of America in France Coningsby Dawson 1921
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Then the river, which is called the St. Lawrence, is sometimes narrow and rapid and sometimes expands into lake-like reaches.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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Second, the St. Lawrence is the drainage bed of inland oceans -- the Great Lakes.
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