Nile

Examples

• Really, it's like one of the reaches of the Nile--as one imagines the Nile. 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.
• The art of rowing can first be discerned upon the Nile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Before midnight the battle of the Nile was over, and Napoleon's fleet was destroyed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Ne vertheless, if you seek the very origins of the sciences, you will inevitably be drawn to the banks of the Nile, and to the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Great Pyramid put it into his head to go up the Nile. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In Bengal, the Ganges, and several other great rivers, form a great number of navigable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He has sewn up ever so many odalisques in sacks and tilted them into the Nile. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Nile at this point is muddy, swift and turbid, and does not lack a great deal of being as wide as the Mississippi. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There are pre-dynastic Neolithic Egyptian representations of Nile ships of a fair size, capable of carrying elephants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had destroyed Tyre; in Egypt, at one of the mouths of the Nile, he now founded a new city, Alexandria, to replace that ancient centre of trade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The African forests were denser then, and spread eastward and northward from the Upper Nile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I observed him for about ten minutes, and perceived that he was exceedingly taken with this dusk and portly Venus of the Nile. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Once one of the fruits of the Nile, now no longer growing there. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The crooked and pointed stick with which the Egyptian turned the sands of the Nile has slowly grown to be the finished plough that is now driven through the sod by steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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