St. Pierre

[ seynt pyair; French san-pyer ]

noun

a city on Réunion Island, in the Indian Ocean.
a former city on Martinique, in the French West Indies: destroyed 1902, with the entire population of 26,000, by an eruption of the volcano Mt. Pelée.

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"The great floats of wood in the basin of St. Pierre have been swept into the current of the valley," said a third.
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It is possible that had our landing in St. Pierre been at noonday it would not have been so ever-memorable.
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M. de St. Pierre undoubtedly has a great deal of imagination, and deserves to be called a poet.
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But it is the tower of St. Pierre which is its glory and the boast of Normandy.
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St. Pierre-sur-Dives and the collegiate at Eu are later monastic works of the province.
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