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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain, 950 m (3,117 ft) high, in the Lake District of northwest England.
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Examples
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Wordsworth and Landor, who seldom agreed, agreed that Scott's most imaginative line was the verse in "Helvellyn":
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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Those who knew Scott best said, that night was never equalled; Maidie and he were the stars; and she gave them _Constance's_ speeches and "Helvellyn," the ballad then much in vogue, and all her _repertoire_, -- Scott showing her off, and being ofttimes rebuked by her for his intentional blunders.
Stories of Childhood Various 1885
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Gray laid down the vital tour and stopping points: first Ullswater and Derwentwater, then past Helvellyn to Grasmere and Ambleside.
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Thirty years later, when it was proposed to continue the line to Keswick, Ruskin groaned: "I don't want them to see Helvellyn while they are drunk."
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A doctor from Cambridge, the pilot had flown from Skiddaw across the valley to the Helvellyn range, traversed this, then sailed out over the Howgills to Kirkby Lonsdale and was making his return when rain blobs on the Perspex canopy forced him low, so making for his precipitate landing because of reduced visibility.
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Climate change has made life uncomfortable for the vendace, one of two curious fish endemic to the English Lake District the other is the schelley of Helvellyn's Red Tarn.
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Scafell peeps between Dow Crag and Coniston Old Man, and Helvellyn is in view.
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Last week I clambered laboriously up the western slopes of Helvellyn far above the rock islands and shingle beaches now rising into view as Thirlmere's level gradually decreases day by day.
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So it was too on Helvellyn as I stumbled on with the view starting to swim in the heat haze.
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His grave rests in a secluded spot "by the side of a spring" on "the breast of Helvellyn"--a mountain in the Lake District in the North West of England.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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