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)
- a North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic
How To Use St. Lawrence In A Sentence
- Already the banks of the St. Lawrence below Quebec were laid out in seigniories, and the farms were tolerably well cultivated. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
- In this group of great rivers the St. Lawrence is the most remarkable. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
- The ship, with fifteen hundred passengers, and fitted with sufficient lifeboats after the tragedy of the Titanic two years before, sailed in late afternoon, heading east down the St. Lawrence Seaway. Bird Cloud
- Another earthquake spot is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, most interestingly just in a large meteorite impact structure ( "astrobleme") called Charlevoix. Signs of the Times
- Canada, or near the St. Lawrence, which is the natural division for Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam
- He is credited with being the first European discoverer of the St. Lawrence River.
- I thought it fitting to share with you an image of St. Lawrence from the basilica dedicated to him in Rome, St. Lawrence outside the Walls, as well as the confessio beneath the high altar of the same basilica, where his relics are kept and venerated. Feast of St. Lawrence
- But the unintended consequence of the project, along with the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, was that this new water superhighway became a conveyor for invasive species traveling between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. Amid carp threat, a call to unhook
- At Saint Donan, in Brittany, people believe that if children touch the young wrens in the nest, they will suffer from the fire of St. Lawrence, that is, from pimples on the face, legs, and so on. Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament. § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals
- After 1903 and improvements to the St. Lawrence waterway, larger ships or ‘canalers’ could navigate the seaway.
