Great Falls


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Great Falls

A city of central Montana on the Missouri River north-northeast of Helena. It grew with the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the late 1800s.
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Great′ Falls′


n.
a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River. 58,280.
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Noun1.Great Falls - a town in central Montana on the Missouri riverGreat Falls - a town in central Montana on the Missouri river; a center of extensive hydroelectric power
Montana, Treasure State, MT - a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border
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There were similar fortifications on Lake Ontario, and near the great Falls of Niagara, and at the sources of the Ohio River.
Lord, man, if you should once get fairly beset by a brood of grizzly bears, as happened to Hector and I, at the great falls of the Miss--Ah, here comes the tail of the herd, and yonder goes a pack of hungry wolves, ready to pick up the sick, or such as get a disjointed neck by a tumble.
Between five and six next morning, we arrived at Buffalo, where we breakfasted; and being too near the Great Falls to wait patiently anywhere else, we set off by the train, the same morning at nine o'clock, to Niagara.
This was such a great fall, that I said in discomfiture, "Oh!
A great fall of snow had taken place the night before, and the fields were of one uniform white; the appearance was disconsolate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp substance that covered the ground.
At the distance of a mile and a half from the foot of this narrow channel is a rapid, formed by two rocky islands; and two miles beyond is a second great fall, over a ledge of rocks twenty feet high, extending nearly from shore to shore.
Alice didn't know what to say to this: it wasn't at all like conversation, she thought, as he never said anything to HER; in fact, his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree--so she stood and softly repeated to herself: -- 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.'
Kelly Allen Frank was released in mid-November and is under the supervision of parole officials, the Great Falls Tribune reported Saturday.
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