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Great Falls   /greɪt fɔlz/   Listen
Great Falls

noun
1.
A town in central Montana on the Missouri river; a center of extensive hydroelectric power.





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"Great falls" Quotes from Famous Books



... possibilities, a land which, though it echo now only the quiet foot of the Cree, is so unmistakably a White Man's Country, intensifies the sense of majesty and power which here takes possession of us. The men talk of the water-power furnished by the great falls, and hazard guesses of the future economic purposes to which it will be put. For our own part, our one wish is to get away from the noise of even these subdued voices and in silence feast our very souls on this manifestation of the power of God. ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron
... of Kingston was directly in the path of that moving Niagara. While the Company's men were making a last desperate effort to close the break, the great falls were eating their way nearer and nearer the little city. When the roar of the water and the crashing and booming of the falling banks could be heard on the streets and in the offices of the Company, the people left their homes, ...
— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright


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