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.

A river delta ( originally, the Nile River delta ) is so named because its shape approximates the upper-case letter delta ( the shape is a triangle ).

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

It was originally an area of marshland along the banks of the Eridanos river which was used as a cemetery as long ago as the third millennium BC.

In Cadiz ( Spain ), the river Guadalete was originally named Lethe by local Greek and Phoenician colonists who, about to go to war, solved instead their differences by diplomacy and named the river Lethe to forever forget their former differences.

The origin of the name Niger, which originally applied only to the middle reaches of the river, is uncertain.

Under development since 1935, this amphibious tractor was originally intended for use by Army engineers to assist with river crossings.

The smaller Cybina river flows through eastern Poznań to meet the east branch of the Warta ( that branch is also called Cybina – its northern section was originally a continuation of that river, while its southern section has been artificially widened to form a main stream of the Warta ).

* It may have been originally Tarnowo, based on the Polish word tarnina, a kind of river plant.

The goddess Sarasvati was originally a personification of this river, but later developed an independent identity and gained meaning.

is an exact cognate with Avestan Harax < sup > v </ sup > atī, perhaps originally referring to Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā ( modern Ardwisur Anahid ), the Zoroastrian mythological world river, which would point to a common Indo-Iranian myth of a cosmic or mystical river.

The Bulgars ( also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians ) were a semi-nomadic people of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ( then Itil ).

In the late 1970s, the river was the subject of a successful ecological campaign ( called " Save the River "), originally responding to planned development by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

The Welsh name for the river, Mynwy, which may originally have meant " fast-flowing ", was anglicised as Monnow.

The river, which flows between the castle-hill and the powerfully armed fort of San Cristobal, is crossed by a magnificent granite bridge, originally built in 1460, repaired in 1597 and rebuilt in 1833.

Forts that were built along the line of Anduin from Emyn Muil to the inflow of Limlight to guard the passage of the river were originally manned by the people of Calenardhon, but were mostly abandoned during the Watchful Peace.

The river was originally a grayling fishery with brook trout being released in the 1880s.

The area was originally inhabited by the Ais tribe, a hunter-gatherer culture whose territory extended from south of the St. John's river to the St. Lucie Inlet.

Having originally no specific name, the region east of the river Halys was spoken of as the country εν Πόντοι en Pontôi, " on the Pontos ", and hence acquired the name of Pontus, which is first found in Xenophon's Anabasis.

This was perhaps originally meant in a literal sense: the position of bridge-builder was indeed an important one in Rome, where the major bridges were over the Tiber, the sacred river ( and a deity ): only prestigious authorities with sacral functions could be allowed to " disturb " it with mechanical additions.

The canal was originally planned to extend south from Columbia on the east side of the river, but local property owners objected.

* Caerdydd ( originally Caerdyf )-Fortress of ( the river ) Taf ;

He established four towns on the southern banks of the Rio Grande including Reynosa ( 1749 ), which was originally located across the river from the site of present-day Peñitas.

* Gauja, a river in Latvia, formerly known as Livländische Aa

* Lielupe, a river in Latvia, formerly known as Kurländische Aa

Charon, also known as the ferry-man, would take the soul across the river to Hades, if the soul had gold: Upon burial, the family of the dead soul would put coins under the deceased's tongue.

The lake absorbs huge amounts of eroded gravel and snowmelt that the river brings from the Alps, and the former swamps have become fruitful plains: they are known as the " vegetable garden of Switzerland ".

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

The researchers estimate that the river — known as a submarine channel — would be the sixth largest river in the world if it were on land based on the amount of water flowing through it.

In such pre-industrialized, or poorly developed infrastructure regions, many barges are purpose-designed to be powered on waterways by long slender poles thereby becoming known on American waterways as poleboats as the extensive west of North America was settled using the vast tributary river systems of the Mississippi drainage basin.

Not all fish have suffered from the modifications to the river ; the northern pikeminnow ( formerly known as the squawfish ) thrives in the warmer, slower water created by the dams.

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

The result of the bloody three-day confrontation known as the Battle of the Maule was that the Inca conquest of the territories of Chile ended at the Maule river, which subsequently became the boundary between the Incan empire and the Mapuche lands until the arrival of the Spaniards.

Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.

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.

The river itself became known as the Rivière du Détroit, in which détroit is French for " strait ".

The river was known literally as the " River of the Strait ".

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.

Shippers managed ships to and from Osaka ( known as tarubune ) and other cities, bringing goods into the city or transferring them from sea routes to river barges or land routes such as the Tōkaidō ( which began there ).

The territory the tribes covered came to be known as Illyria to Hellenistic and Roman authors, corresponding roughly to the area between Adriatic sea in west, Drava river in North, Morava river in east and the mouth of Vjosë river in south.

The coastal periphery was the home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys.

At a site simply named " The Sinks " in Sinks Canyon State Park, the river flows into a cave in a formation known as the Madison Limestone, and then rises again a half-mile down the canyon in a placid pool.

Kansas City lies in the Midwestern United States, as well as near the geographic center of the country, at the confluence of the second largest river in the country, the Missouri River, and the Kansas River ( also known as the Kaw River ).

Also known as the Ameles potamos ( river of unmindfulness ), the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld, where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness.

The Mississippi River flows along a ridge formed by its own deposits ( known as a levee ), from which the lands decline toward a river beyond at an average fall of six feet per mile ( 3 m / km ).