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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The ship was some days sailing up a large river, called the Saint Lawrence, which runs right across Canada, from west to east.
Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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They tore through the Saint Lawrence sea way like a thousand angry barracuda.
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I remember years ago reading that dead whales washed up in the Saint Lawrence seaway contained such high concentrations of heavy metals and other toxics that in the U.S., they would be declared superfund sites.
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(Reminding me of Saint Lawrence, who, when being grilled on a stake, said, "Turn me over, I'm done on this side.")
Kelly Nuxoll: Obama's Star Turn At The Petraeus Hearing 2008
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Saviour; of two columns from the house of Pontius Pilate; of the stone to which the Sacred hands were bound, when the scourging was performed; of the grid-iron of Saint Lawrence, and the stone below it, marked with the frying of his fat and blood; these set a shadowy mark on some cathedrals, as an old story, or a fable might, and stop them for an instant, as they flit before me.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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When he was about to die and be taken into Heaven, Saint Lawrence said, ‘I think I’m done.
The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004
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When he was about to die and be taken into Heaven, Saint Lawrence said, ‘I think I’m done.
The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004
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Forty girls from Saint Lawrence, a Roman Catholic secondary school, were admitted to the district hospital two weeks ago, and
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"Those are the words that, according to Ambrose, were uttered by Saint Lawrence on the gridiron, when he invited his executioners to turn him over, as Prudentius also recalls in the Peristephanon," William said with a saintly air.
The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980
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Whether or not Saint Lawrence really dreaded another experience of broiling, at the end of certain hours the
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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