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.

* Aabach ( Afte ), formerly called the Große Aa, a river in Germany

* Münstersche Aa, a river in Germany, one of several Westphalian rivers called Aa

It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish and Eridanus the river.

The river lands are occupied by the Vanir and are called Vanaland or Vanaheim.

* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

It comprises the lower course of the river Aare, which is why the canton is called Aar-gau ( meaning Aare district ).

A branch of the Bastarnae, called the Peucini by Greco-Roman writers, occupied the region north of the Danube river delta.

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.

Seven years later the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says: plundered the English as far as the river Tees, and he seized a multitude of people and many herds of cattle: and the Scots called this the raid of Albidosorum, that is, Nainndisi.

Anne further honoured Churchill, after his leadership in the victories against the French of 13 August 1704 near the village of Blenheim ( German Blindheim ) on the river Danube ( Battle of Blenheim ), by granting him the royal manor of Woodstock, and building him a house at her own expense to be called Blenheim.

The railway terminated at a station called " Kingswear for Dartmouth " ( now on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway ) and a ferry took passengers across the river to the station at Dartmouth railway station, which had a dedicated pontoon.

That is why the river was originally called the River of the Strait by early French settlers.

The region was first referred to as Ma ' ikele Bahr (" between the seas / rivers ," i. e. the land between the Red Sea and the Mereb river ), renamed under Emperor Zara Yaqob as the domain of the Bahr Negash, called Midri Bahri ( Tigrinya: " Sea land ," though it included some areas like Shire on the other side of the Mereb, today in Ethiopia ) until the modern day, when its name was changed to Mereb Mellash ( beyond the river Mereb ) under the rule of Yohannes IV, the locals referred to this area as Midri Bahri.

:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.

In Akkadian the river was similarly called Purattu, which has been perpetuated in Semitic languages ( cf.

In Czech, it's called únor, meaning month of submerging river ice.

The department of Guadeloupe comprises five islands: Guadeloupe island composed of Basse-Terre Island and Grande-Terre ( separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called salt river ) and the dependencies composed by the adjacent French islands of La Désirade, Les Saintes and Marie-Galante.

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

An island in a river or an island in a lake may be called an eyot ( also ait ), or holm.

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 implemented the U. S. government policy towards the Indian populations, which called for relocation of Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river.

:" Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they inhabited so, that, beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tanais ( Don ), and along Europe to Cadiz ; and settling themselves on the lands which they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names.

In Alaska, a river which runs through the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is called River Lethe.

The Origo Gentis Langobardorum tells the story of a small tribe called the Winnili dwelling in southern Scandinavia ( Scadanan ) ( The Codex Gothanus writes that the Winnili first dwelt near a river called Vindilicus on the extreme boundary of Gaul.