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 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.

They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.

Was it only a few nights ago that they had been standing together in front of the house looking at the moon-washed river??

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

The Aal is a small river located only within the town's territory.

The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, the last occasion being the famous flood of 1966, with 4, 500 m³ / s after rainfall of in Badia Agnano and in Florence, in only 24 hours.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

This would only have been possible by the use of some kind of buoyancy device: Ammianus Marcellinus mentions that the Cornuti regiment swam across a river floating on their shields " as on a canoe " ( 357 ).

For many centuries to come Basel possessed the only permanent bridge over the river " between Lake Constance and the sea ".

Garoua, on the Benoué River, is the main river port, but it is active only from July to September.

Although the Cairo metropolis extends away from the Nile in all directions, the city of Cairo resides only on the east bank of the river and two islands within it on a total area of.

There is a plane tree in the corner by the river, the only remaining tree in a senior British football ground.

The only topography on it is the River Thames, letting the reader know whether a station is north or south of the river.

straddles Equator ; very narrow strip of land that controls the lower Congo River and is the only outlet to South Atlantic Ocean ; dense tropical rainforest in central river basin and eastern highlands

The Artibonite River is the longest river of the island but only 68 km are in the Dominican Republic.

The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces.

The Detroit River is designated an American Heritage River and a Canadian Heritage River — the only river to have this dual designation.

The river drops only three feet before entering into Lake Erie at.

The Detroit River was designated as an American Heritage River in 1998 and a Canadian Heritage River in 2001 — the only river to have dual designations.

The only two automobile traffic routes that completely cross the river are the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, both of which connect Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario.

It is El Salvador's only navigable river, it and its tributaries drain about half the country.

* Eridanos ( mythology ) ( or Eridanus ), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely

Once the Euphrates enters the Upper Mesopotamian plains, its grade drops significantly ; within Syria the river falls while over the last stretch between Hīt and the Shatt al-Arab the river drops only.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

Ohio built many miles of canal, Indiana had working canals for a few decades, and the Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River system until replaced by a channelized river waterway.

Since the river is fairly short, it has few tributaries.

The upper portion of the river is one of the few places where a Canadian city lies directly south of an American city.

In the summer months the spillway of the dam is opened for a few minutes daily and tourists gather to see the water rushing down the river ( picture ).

A few mystery religions taught the existence of another river, the Mnemosyne ; those who drank from the Mnemosyne would remember everything and attain omniscience.

In this region the general level of the country begins to decrease in elevation, with only a few mountain spurs, which from time to time push as far as the river and form small-scale pongos.

After a few Ayyubid raids — including attacks on Zir ' in, Forbelet, and Mount Tabor — the Crusaders still were not tempted to attack their main force, and Saladin led his men back across the river once provisions and supplies ran low.

The river makes a few large meanders in Skopje and is crossed by several bridges, five in the centre of the city.

Avignon is situated on the left bank of the Rhône river, a few kilometres above its confluence with the Durance, about south-east of Paris, south of Lyon and north-north-west of Marseille.

Marquette returned in 1674, camped a few days near the mouth of the river, then moved on to the portage, where he stayed through the winter of 1674 – 75.

The river rises at Vrutok, a few kilometers north of Gostivar in the Republic of Macedonia.

They generally do not live in freshwater although there are a few known exceptions, such as the bull shark and the river shark that can survive in both seawater and freshwater.

According to a few extant documents the Melek-Chesme river ( small and shallow nowadays ) was navigable in the Bosporan times, and sea galleys were able to enter the river.

After a few days ' travel they soon discovered that steep canyons, waterfalls and impassable rapids made travel by river impossible.

There were only a few places where the Snake River was not buried deep in a canyon, and few spots where the river slowed down enough to make a crossing possible.

In this section, the regions along the river are mostly deserts and grasslands, with very few tributaries.

These parallels end after the first few books, when the stories of the books begin to be structured along a loose plot arc involving the struggles of the city-state of Ar and the island of Cos to control the Vosk river area, as well as the struggles at a higher level between non-human Priest-Kings and Kurii ( another alien race ) to control the solar system.

The average flow of the river is very low, only a few cubic metres per second, but much higher flows are possible during periods of heavy runoff.

The Celtic king, Belin, rebuilds an earth wall surrounding a few dozen huts and orders a small landing place to be cut into the south side of the wall, along the river front, where a wooden quay is built ( approximate date ).

Leats generally start some distance ( a few hundred yards, or perhaps several miles ) above the mill or other destination, where an offtake or sluice gate diverts a proportion of the water from a river or stream.