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.

The Colo River is regarded as the last unpolluted river in New South Wales because the majority of it flows through the Wollemi National Park.

The parts on either side of the river were regarded as three different towns ( Old Town, New Town and Brandenburg cathedral district ) for centuries.

The Romsdalen valley and Rauma are regarded as one of the most beautiful river valleys in Norway.

The river mouth, which was the entrance to the harbor, and which was regarded as the best on the Prussian Baltic coast, was then protected by two curving long breakwaters, and was strongly fortified.

Until the 1970s, the South Asian river dolphin was regarded as a single species.

While the river should be regarded as the modern Rufiji River, the bay should definitely be identified with the calm waters between the island of Mafia and the Rufiji area.

For a period of time, European geomorphologists regarded rias to include any broad estuarine river mouth, including fjords, which are long, narrow inlets with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity.

The hypothesis of a substantial Dacian population in the river Vistula basin is not widely supported among modern scholars, as this region is generally regarded as inhabited predominantly by Germanic tribes during the Roman imperial era e. g. Heather ( 2009 ).

The river is generally regarded as safe for secondary contact such as sailing.

In addition to the formal Network Rail definition, the ECML is sometimes regarded as including the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line, on which some East Coast services continue beyond Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen, running mostly in view of the east coast via Kirkcaldy, Dundee and Arbroath .| North of Edinburgh it includes the red cantilever Forth Bridge, and at Dundee the curved Tay Bridge, both crossing wide river estuaries.

The name Rogue River apparently began with French fur trappers who called the river La Riviere aux Coquins because they regarded the natives as rogues ( coquins ).

In particular, the stretch of the river along downtown Newark came to be regarded in the later decades of the 20th century as particularly wretched.

It is on the north shore of the Shoalhaven River, across the river from Nowra, the major town of the Shoalhaven, of which Bomaderry is locally regarded as being a suburb.

The Romans regarded them as a civitas, a major and influential polity of Gaul, The Remi occupied the northern Champagne plain, on the southern fringes of the Forest of Ardennes, between the rivers Mosa ( Meuse ) and Matrona ( Marne ), and along the river valleys of the Aisne and its tributaries the Aire and the Vesle.

He is generally regarded as the only Axis prisoner of war to succeed in escaping from a Canadian prisoner of war camp and returning to Germany, though a second man, a U-Boat rating named Walter Kurt Reich is said to have jumped from a Polish troopship ( presumably the ex-liner Sobieski ) in the St. Lawrence river in July 1940.

Due to Bill's high standards in the training of his guides, river professionals trained by Dvorak's are in demand and are highly regarded by other rafting companies based on their training and on the experience gained while working for Dvorak's.

Together with Göta älv, which it is called as the river has passed through the lake Vänern, thus regarded as an entity, Göta älv-Klarälven is the longest river in Scandinavia and in the Nordic countries and its Swedish part the longest river of Sweden.

On this supposition the inhabitants merely removed from one bank of the river to the other ; and this would readily explain the passages in which Himera and Thermae appear to be regarded as identical, and where the river Himera ( which unquestionably gave name to the older city ) is represented at the same time as flowing by Thermae.

The Sikhs claimed they were only moving into Sikh possessions ( specifically the village of Moran, whose ownership was disputed ) on the east side of the river, but the move was regarded by the British as clearly hostile and they declared war.

The yaatraa intends to invoke blessings of Ayurved Murti Bhagwaan Sadaashiv Mahaamrityunjaya ( who is regarded as the primordial and supreme doctor ), and it starts from Swaadhyaaya Bhawan Ashram and culminates at the banks of the holy river Narmada.

The Risle is regarded as a coastal river.

Daphne was a nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus, who had scorned Apollo.

Jupiter agreed and the river god Numicus cleansed Aeneas of all his mortal parts and Aphrodite anointed him with Ambrosia and Nectar, making him a god.

Xerxes I of Persia passed during his invasion of Greece of 480 BC and buried alive nine young men and nine maidens as a sacrifice to the river god.

In Greek mythology, Aegina was a daughter of the river god Asopus and the nymph Metope.

Alpheus, a river god, was in love with Artemis, but he realizes that he can do nothing to win her heart.

Artemis, who is with her companions at Letrenoi, goes to Alpheus, but, suspicious of his motives, she covers her face with mud so that the river god does not recognize her.

Even certain male deities representing regeneration and fertility were occasionally depicted with breast-like appendices, such as the river god Hapy who was considered to be responsible for the annual overflowing of the Nile.

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.

This Centaurus was either himself the son of Ixion and Nephele ( inserting an additional generation ) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus.

His third marriage was to Deianira, for whom he had to fight the river god Achelous ( upon Achelous ' death, Heracles removed one of his horns and gave it to some nymphs who turned it into the cornucopia.

Having wrestled and defeated Achelous, god of the Acheloos river, Heracles takes Deianira as his wife.

Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of the sea god and his alleged father, Poseidon, when Jason arrived in Iolcus and lost one of his sandals in the river Anauros (" wintry Anauros "), while helping an old woman to cross ( the Goddess Hera in disguise ).

Ovid wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, where its murmuring would induce drowsiness.

* Meander ( mythology ), a river god in Greek mythology and patron of the Maeander River in Turkey

One of the figurations assumed by the river god Achelous in wooing Deianira is as a man with the head of a bull, according to Sophocles ' Trachiniai.

** Cocytiae, daughters of the river god Cocytus

* Deliades ( Island of Delos )-daughters of the river god Inopos

A mortal woman named Tyro was married to Cretheus ( with whom she had one son, Aeson ) but loved Enipeus, a river god.

A similar story is found in Hyginus, according to whom Scylla was the daughter of the river god Crataeis and was loved by Glaucus, but Glaucus himself was also loved by the sorceress Circe.

Pursued by the amorous Greek god Pan, she ran to a river's edge and asked for assistance from the river nymphs.

Achilles fought with the river god Scamander, and a battle of the gods followed.

According to the legend, Jupiter made him a god and guardian spirit of the river ( also called Volturnus, " rolling water ").

This gave rise to the standard Roman depiction of the river as a powerfully built reclining river god, also named Tiberinus, with streams of water flowing from his hair and beard.