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The Hell-Gate of Ireland: Smoldering brimstone, bitter labdanum, clove, black musk, and copper-colored feathers.
Thor's Day feste_sylvain 2009
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So they set out at Hell-Gate Hill, for there they had their rendezvous, from whence they came with a straight course upon their march toward the town of
The Holy War 2001
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The name of their country is the province of Loath-Good: the remote parts of it are far distant from the land of Doubting, yet they do both butt and bound upon the hill called Hell-Gate
The Holy War 2001
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Hell-Gate, & kept up an incessant Fire assisted with the Cannon at
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston
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Pelts of Esopus, together with the Van Rippers and the Van Brunts, bearing down all before them; then the Suy Dams and the Van Dams, pressing forward with many a blustering oath at the head of the warriors of Hell-Gate, clad in their thunder-and-lightning gaberdines; and lastly the standard-bearers and body-guards of Peter Stuyvesant, bearing the great beaver of the Manhattoes.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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There are several passes at the head-waters of the Missouri which may be used; -- the Hell-Gate Pass; the Deer Lodge; and the Wisdom River, or Big
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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_Hellegat_, or, as it has been interpreted, _Hell-Gate_, [242-1] which it continues to bear at the present day.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Every repast was a kind of religious rite with him, and his first thought on finding himself once more on dry ground was how he should contrive to celebrate his wonderful escape from Hell-Gate and all its horrors by a solemn banquet.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Our road passed down along Hell-Gate river, leaving Deer Lodge City some eight miles to the left.
Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous
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During the early part of the last century the more delicate New Yorkers transformed the term into Hurlgate, but the change was vigorously opposed by Washington Irving, and so Hell-Gate was revived.
Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 3. Geographical Names Henry Louis 1921
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