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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A borough of northwest England east-northeast of Liverpool. It is an important center of glass manufacture.
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The last 100 years or so has been oddly geologically active and particularly the last fifty years since the erruption of Saint Helens.
In Darkness » Blog Archive » Rant: Medicine or Gasoline 2008
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MARCIANO: No. That volcano -- that thing makes Saint Helens look like small potatoes.
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It is all quiet this morning this morning on Mt. Saint Helens, but it might not stay that way.
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In some old accounts of the Churchwardens, of Saint Helens, at Abingdon,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832 Various
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"I was once out trawling with a fisherman off Saint Helens, when we dragged up a donkey-cart!"
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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Shortly after ten o'clock Captain Vavassour came on board, immediately after which the hands were piped to "up anchor"; and within half-an-hour we were under way and standing out toward Saint Helens, under all plain sail, before a light northerly breeze.
A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy Harry Collingwood 1886
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Mount Saint Helens, as the far range which led up to the relic of the ancient lava-floods that is now known by that name was called by the settlers, was wonderfully beautiful in the twilights of the sun and moon.
The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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I asked him if the ship was going to put into Saint Helens, or if not, would he get the captain to land Jim and me at Portland?
Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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I therefore supposed that we were steering for the Downs, or perhaps for Saint Helens.
Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The armament returned to Saint Helens, to the astonishment and disgust of the whole nation.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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