" Muskegon " is derived from the Ottawa Indian term " Masquigon " meaning " marshy river or swamp ".

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.

There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.

Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.

He had crossed the river which now, beyond the woods yonder, was sliding darkly under the mist.

The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

What in the name of God was he doing, crouched in a timbered pit on the wrong bank of the river??

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.

The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.

Another man tried to swim across the river from the East to the West, but was shot and killed.

It was foggy that evening, but the path to my house was so well grooved that I could feel my way, accustomed as I was to the dense mists that rise from the sun-warmed palisades of the river and sometimes last for days.

Capricornus is also sometimes identified as Pan, the god with a goat's head, who saved himself from the monster Typhon by giving himself a fish's tail and diving into a river.

Lethe was also the name of the Greek spirit of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often identified.

The locations of Sattagydia and Hindush and the extent of their boundaries have not been identified either though it is certain that these two tributaries existed along the river Indus as the name Hindush is analogous with the Indus and was derived by the Persians from the Sanskrit word Sindhu.

The Po river is first certainly identified in the Graeco-Roman historians and geographers of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, long after the valley had been occupied successively by prehistoric and historic peoples: Ligures, Etruscans, Celts, Veneti, Umbri, and Romans.

Because the river is identified with Rome, the term " swimming the Tiber " has come to be the Protestant shorthand term for converting to Roman Catholicism.

Ghaggar-Hakra River has been identified as the historic Sarasvati river by many researchers.

References to the Sarasvati river in the Rgveda is often identified with the present-day Ghaggar River, although the Arghandab River as a possible locus of early Rigvedic references has been discussed.

The Taeni, later identified with the Arabic speaking people called Tayy, were located around the Khaybar oasis north of Medina, and also in an area stretching up to the Euphrates river, while the Saraceni were placed north of them.

Plato in his Phaedo identified Acheron as the second greatest river in the world, excelled only by Oceanus.

The location has been identified variously as the river Trebbia, Trevi nel Lazio, or one of the places called Trebula in antiquity, two of which — Trebula Mutusca and Trebula Suffenas — are in Sabine territory.

The meaning of the name Shannon most probably refers to an ancient Celtic deity identified with a river in Ireland.

" Fish swimming in the river were identified as Grayling fish, and it is said that the residents preferred the name " Grayling " to the name " Crawford ," and renamed the area after the fish.

West Conshohocken is easily identified by the mid and high-rise commercial development along its waterfront, which in recent years has also spread across the river to Conshohocken's waterfront.

In 1992 aerial photography identified a Roman road running west of Carmarthen past Wiston to Poyston Cross, raising the possibility of Roman fortlets at strategic river crossings at Whitland and Haverfordwest.

Such dialects often contain folk-etymological derivatives of French words, for example lavier (" river, stream ") which is a syncopated variant of the standard French phrase la rivière (" the river ") but has been identified by folk etymology with laver, " to wash "; therefore lavier is interpreted to mean " a place to wash " ( since such streams are often used for washing laundry ).

In a series of expeditions, a team of marine archaeologists led by Ballard identified what appeared to be ancient shorelines, freshwater snail shells, and drowned river valleys in roughly 300 feet ( 100 m ) of water off the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey.

The later Arab accounts, most of them generating from al-Ḥakam's, also place the battle near Medina Sidonia, " near the lake " or Wadilakka ( river Lakka ), often identified as the Guadalete river, La Janda lake, stream of " Beca ", or the Barbate river ( that is, their associated valleys ).

Fagg, identified twenty five active swallow holes between Dorking and Mickleham, finding that most were only a few centimetres in diameter and were located in the vertical banks of the river below the waterline.

In 1933, after various efforts spanning centuries, the river now called Fiumicino, crossing the town of Savignano di Romagna ( now Savignano sul Rubicone ), was officially identified as the former Rubicon.

The Gari river ( erroneously identified as the Rapido ) was the site of a bloodily repulsed and ill-conceived assault by the U. S. 36th Infantry Division, led by General Walker from January 20 – 22, 1944 when the Allies were attempting to establish a bridgehead in the vicinity of the town of Sant ' Angelo, to launch attacks on the Gustav Line near Monte Cassino.

The two armies met on the banks of a river named the Winwaed, but this river has never been identified.

`` Old Knife's got the largest war party ever seen on the river '', he said calmly.

Soon as the Burnsides moved on, he'd lead Rex down by the river ; ;

Below, people line the steps, as though on bleachers, to watch the sky and river.

The grass and fields of rice are perfectly green, and herds of cattle are everywhere feeding on the banks of the river, and the natives are scattered about differently employed.

Some are fishing, some driving the team, and many are sitting indolently on the banks of the river.

In fact, all persons were permitted to cross the Rhine into Kehl, there being no sentry posted on the west side of the river.

We should avoid these congestion points or, putting it another way, keep cars starting and ending on the East side of the river -- on the East side.

water boiling on the fire for washing laundry every day, the pots scoured with river sand after each meal.

Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.

Finally, Magwitch's pursuit of Compeyson, his archenemy and betrayer, begins by his holding him in a vicelike grip on the river flats to frustrate his escape and culminates in his `` laying his hand on his cloak to identify him '', thus precipitating the death-locked struggle in the water during which Compeyson drowns.

Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.