It's so romantic up there, she used to say, with the broad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous dark mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic.

It is used occasionally when it is necessary to limit the turning circle as the yacht swings when it is anchored, such as in a very narrow river or a deep pool in an otherwise shallow area.

He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose Abbey used to cross the river.

The river is still used for transportation of farming produce ; however, it is not as important as it once was due to the construction of roads and railways.

* Ark ( river boat ), a temporary boat used in river transport in eastern North America

It used cast iron for the first time as arches to cross the river Severn.

In 2010, a team of scientists led by the University of Leeds used a robotic " yellow submarine " to observe detailed flows within an " undersea river " for the very first time.

" Bank " is also used in some parts of the world to refer to an artificial ridge of earth intended to retain the water of a river or pond.

Before being released back into the river, the used water was held in large tanks known as retention basins for up to six hours.

It is much used for the transit of large canoes, which are hauled across it from the Terni river, and which reach the Rio Negro by the little stream called the Pimichin.

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

For instance, in the sentence, " Cry me a river ," " me " is used to express the speaker's interest in the action.

It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.

Belle Isle, in the northern section of the river, is entirely used as a Detroit city park, and is open to the public via a bridge connection with the city.

Handcrafted vessels were a common mode of travel across the river, and the pirogue and bateaux were also used.

This led to the rise of mobsters such as the Purple Gang, who regularly traveled across the frozen river and used violence as a means to control the route known as the " Detroit-Windsor Funnel " — parodying the newly built tunnel.

During warmer months, specialized boats were used to haul alcohol across the river.

There was no limit on the methods used by rum-runners to import alcohol across the river.

Millions of dollars so far have been used to dredge pollutants out of the river, and the recent cleaning up and restoration of the Detroit River is remarkable, although other problems are still at hand.

Only one river, the Baro is used for transport.

Locations across the river in St. Louis, Missouri were used, including Union Station and the Fox Theater, both of which have since been renovated.

According to the research of Russian anthropologist S. M. Shirokogoroff, in the Manchu tribe of the Amur river mothers used to put their male babies ' penises into mouths as a caress, since it was not considered a sexual act.

The most famous, Savorgnan de Brazza, used Gabonese bearers and guides in his search for the headwaters of the Congo river.

The Tura limestone used for the casing was quarried across the river.

It is narrated in the < U > memoirs of the apostles </ U > that as soon as Jesus came up out of the river Jordan and a voice said to him: ' You are My Son, this day I have begotten you ', this Devil came and tempted him, even so far as to exclaim: ' Worship me '; but Christ replied: ' Get behind me, Satanas, the Lord your God shall you worship, and Him only shall you serve '.

Both starting at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam on the Sacramento, the two canals are and long respectively, and divert a total of over from the river to serve some of land.

Although the building of the railroads lessened the importance of the river somewhat, the lower river ( navigable as far as East Brady, Pennsylvania through locks ) has continued to serve as route of commercial transportation until the present day.

They were fortified by Gondorians to serve as their north-eastern defence, with the watchtowers built on the hills of Amon Hen and Amon Lhaw on opposite banks of the river, and the Gates of Argonath constructed at the northern entrance into the straits of Anduin as a warning to trespassers.

Tributaries and the main stem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or sea.

However, Bendigeidfran lays himself down over the river to serve as a bridge for his men, uttering the gnomic words, " A fo ben, bid bont " (' He would be a leader, let him be a bridge ").

After Arkansas became a territory in 1819 Daniel and Thomas Phillips constructed a lumber yard in the community to serve as a fuel depot for river traffic.

Eagle Harbor was originally known as Trueman Point, a river port established in the early 18th century to serve as a shipping point for tobacco plantations located in the Aquasco area.

Founded in 1728 by the same act of the Virginia Assembly that established neighboring Fredericksburg, Falmouth was created as a port town on the Rappahannock to serve inhabitants living north of the river within the vast Northern Neck holdings of Lord Fairfax.

The Brod Fortress from the Baroque period, was constructed during the Austro-Hungarian Empire to serve as a stronghold against the Ottoman Empire, which was situated on the other bank of the Sava river.

Industrial areas lay on the east side of the river as does all three of the railway stations which serve Newhaven ; Newhaven Town, Newhaven Harbour and the now redundant Newhaven Marine.

The Ahr river and its smaller affluents serve as a habitat for rare animals, that are adapted to alluvial forests.

The church of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, under the curacy of John Jones, acquired in 1839 an innovative " Boatman's Floating Chapel ", a houseboat to serve the families working on the river and the canals.

The rapids referred to by McKennan serve as a barrier to salmon migration and remove a major incentive for river settlement ( de Laguna & McClellan 1960 ).

The hermit then suggested that because of his size and strength Christopher could serve Christ by assisting people to cross a dangerous river, where they were perishing in the attempt.

The town has a well-preserved medieval bridge that used to serve as the main route of Ermine Street over the river.

According to another theory, they migrated to Bačka from Dalmatia ( Zadar hinterland, Ravni Kotari, Cetinska krajina ), Lika, Podgorje ( littoral Bunjevci: Senj, Jablanac, Krivi Put, Krasno ...) and western Herzegovina ( area around river Buna, Čitluk, Međugorje ) in several groups led by Franciscan monks, to serve as mercenaries against Ottoman army in 1682, 1686, and 1687.

The Rotherhithe Tunnel was originally designed to serve foot and horse-drawn traffic passing between the docks on either side of the river.

Sweden demanded that Norway vacate all land east of the river Glomma, which was to serve as the new border.

It seems inevitable, therefore, that there were some facilities to serve the barges at least until the Iron Trunk Aqueduct was built across the river to Cosgrove, but little remains except a wharf and a pub.

Stones along the bank of the river are still bleached, however, and serve as a reminder of the chemical spill.

The small town of Stuarts Point was established on the river just inside to serve arriving ships.