St. Helens

[ hel-uhnz ]

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noun

a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
Mount, an active volcano in SW Washington, part of the Cascade Range: seven major eruptions during 1980, the first since 1854–57. 8,364 feet (2,549 meters).

Mr. Moulder was a married man living in lodgings over a wine-merchant's vaults in Great St. Helens.

In the course of a month 93% of the pupae at Oxford were killed, chiefly by small birds, while at St. Helens 68% perished.

Through the opening the high summits of Mount St. Helens glittered like a city of pearl, far, far away in the clear, bright air.

Like some sun-god's abode in the shadow of ages, St. Helens still lifted her silver tents in the far sky.

Of Mount St. Helens it is probable that its slumbering fires are not very deeply buried.

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