Banks

Examples

• The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These ovens were always built on the banks of a stream, a big spring, or pool of water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• During the night, General Banks fell back to Pleasant Hill, where another battle was fought on the 9th, and the enemy repulsed with great loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Having received this order I went to New Orleans to confer with Banks about the proposed movement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The river was higher than its natural banks from December, 1862, to the following April. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sherman had written a letter to Banks, proposing a co-operative movement with him against Shreveport, subject to my approval. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We left Edinburgh in a week, passing through Coupar, St. Andrews, and along the banks of the Tay, to Perth, where our friend expected us. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• At the shore, where the ice has been partly forced out along the banks, it will be full of grass, leaves, pebbles and sticks, and presents a broken and frosted appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was the duty of the banks, they seemed to think, to lend for as long a time, and to as great an extent, as they might wish to borrow. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The locomotive chuffed slowly between the banks, hidden. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• During the night, General Banks continued his retrograde movement to Grand Ecore, and thence to Alexandria, which he reached on the 27th of April. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the 26th I also received a letter from Banks, asking me to reinforce him with ten thousand men at Port Hudson. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The timber that had formerly grown upon both banks, and for a considerable distance out, was still standing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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