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 most significant threat the Roman Empire faced during the reign of Domitian arose from the northern provinces of Illyricum, where the Suebi, the Sarmatians and the Dacians continuously harassed Roman settlements along the Danube river.

The expedition faced its second bitter winter, and voted on whether to camp on the south side of the Columbia river ( modern Astoria, Oregon ), building Fort Clatsop.

Buller's subordinate, Major General Charles Warren, successfully crossed the river, but was then faced with a fresh defensive position centred on a prominent hill known as Spion Kop.

Edward de Brus and Domhnall Ó Néill sacked and burned Coleraine, threw down the bridge over the river Bann and faced off de Burgh's pursuing army on the opposite bank.

This part of the river faced significant water loss.

The Anglo-Saxons and Danes faced each other across the river.

The batteries faced away from the dockyard itself to forestall an attack from the landward side ; the ships and shore-mounted guns on the river were considered sufficient to protect from that side.

If a steamboat could get through Dauphine Rapids, they then faced Deadman Rapids, some 18 miles further up the river.

Craterus was to ford the river and attack if Porus faced Alexander with all his troops, but to hold his position if Porus faced Alexander with only a part of his army.

Although Roosevelt and his father faced skepticism about their claims of navigating a completely uncharted river over 1000 km long, they eventually silenced their critics through the elder Roosevelt's oratory and his one of his most popular books, Through the Brazilian Wilderness.

As Birmingham and the Black Country developed, the estate faced two problems: loss of land to the west, and lack of water from the river due to industrial pollution.

This was in contrast to the earlier period, when Dublin faced away from the river, often using it as a rubbish dump.

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In 1840 when the North Midland Railway was built, George Stephenson was faced with the problem at Bullbridge of taking the line over the road but under the canal, thus the Bullbridge Aqueduct, in its final form, placed the river, road, railway and canal at four levels.

Here, on the further side of the river the British troops faced first fording the river itself, climbing the bank on its far side, then after a small amount of level ground, a further relatively low, but steep bank, and then a gradual upward slope, at the top of which the Russians had built an earthworks armed with artillery.

Subsequently in 1099 the troops of both Sieciech and Duke Władysław I faced with the forces of Zbigniew and Bolesław near Zarnowiec by the river Pilica.

In the same year, in one of the battles associated with the First Macedonian War between Macedonia and the Roman Republic, Philopoemen faced Damophantus, whose army was composed of Aetolians and Eleans, near the Larissa river ( on the border of Elis ).

In the famous Battle of Naungyo, Bayinnaung faced a superior force on the other side of a river.

Hussein Shah, later faced defeat when he invaded Ahom kingdom and the victorious Ahom army chased the invaders till Karatoya river.

A parish church was established in the 14th century ( although there had been a chapel of ease since 1018 ), and in 1366 a new church building was built on the high ground of the village as the old one faced erosion from the river.

Isa Khan faced the formidable Mughal force led by Shah Bardi and Muhammad Quli on the Sarail-Juan Shahi border in Kastul on the bank of Meghna river ..

The eastern side of the fort faced the river, where there was a shipyard and anchorage for the Royal Savage.

Lived alone by the river.

Soon as the Burnsides moved on, he'd lead Rex down by the river ; ;

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

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

A river, wide as the Missouri, where it ran by his place.

Finally, Magwitch's pursuit of Compeyson, his archenemy and betrayer, begins by his holding him in a vicelike grip on the river flats to frustrate his escape and culminates in his `` laying his hand on his cloak to identify him '', thus precipitating the death-locked struggle in the water during which Compeyson drowns.

The enemy had filtered across the river during the night and a full force of 1000 men, armed with Russian machine guns, attacked the position held by Chandler's men.

Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.

Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the East by the Armenian Highland, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia.

Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.

Built especially for the tropics, it was delivered by river in a huge dug-out canoe to Lambaréné, packed in a zinc-lined case.

In 1992 – 1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils — seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones — from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.

By the River Styx, he sees the souls of those not given a proper burial, forced to wait by the river until someone buries them.

North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.

* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

Near the west end of Lake Thun, the river receives the waters of the Kander, which has just been joined by the Simme.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

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

The channel of the river has been considerably improved by the federal government.

The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

When the work was finished, the river was turned back into its usual channel and the captives by whose hands the labor had been accomplished were put to death that none might learn their secret.

He and some colleagues had stripped naked for a swim in the river when they were surprised by a party of ladies out for a stroll.