Niagara
[naɪ'æɡrə]
Definition
(noun.) a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York.
(noun.) waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls.
Typist: Psyche--From WordNet
Examples
- The Niagara Bridge is a combination of cast steel and iron. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Sir William Siemens had said that the power of all the coal raised in the world would barely represent the power of Niagara. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Yet I knew it was a good deal more than half as high as Niagara Falls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At the cyanamid plant at Niagara Falls, in Canada, there are seven of these great carbide furnaces, each about fifteen feet long and half as wide and one-third as deep. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Rau_ FOREVER RUSHING AND FOREVER WONDERFUL Niagara Falls from Prospect Point on the American side, looking southwest, across and up the stream. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After the Niagara bridge, above described, he commenced another bridge of greater dimensions over the same river, which was finished within two or three years. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The most tremendous waterfall in our country is Niagara Falls, which every minute hurls millions of gallons of water down a 163-foot precipice. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Two fine examples of this type are found, one in a bridge across the Niagara adjacent to the suspension bridge above described and one across the river Forth at Queens Ferry in Scotland. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Slow: stagnating along, like shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, like Babel and Bedlam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- British America and the United States united in 1855--Niagara. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Carbon tetrachloride, now made electrically at Niagara Falls, is very cheap and would be ideal for the purpose. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the chapter on Electrical inventions reference is made to the mighty power of Niagara used to actuate a great number of electrical and other machines of vast power. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I want to see Niagara Falls. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The cyanamid plant at Niagara Falls, Ontario, which was established in 1909, with a capacity of 10,000 tons, had a capacity of 64,000 tons per annum in 1916. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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