Rhine

Examples

• For ten days after this repulse the Duke of Brunswick hesitated, and then he began to fall back towards the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He did not care if in breaking Germany Europe was broken; his mind did not go far enough beyond the Rhine to understand that possibility. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He summoned an assembly or diet of the empire at Worms on the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was no such settling down behind a final frontier on the part of the Chinese as we see in the case of the Romans at the Rhine and Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then for a while the barbarians were held, and the Emperor Probus in 276 forced the Franks and the Alamanni back over the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The course of the Rhine below Mayence becomes much more picturesque. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The generals in command of the Rhine legions, the Palatine troops, and the eastern armies, each attempted to seize power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By that peace the power of the Emperor was reduced to a shadow, and the acquisition of Alsace brought France up to the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He built Hadrian's wall across Britain, and a palisade between the Rhine and the Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The sail up the Rhine was perfect, and I just sat and enjoyed it with all my might. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We find in 236 A.D. a people called the Franks breaking bounds upon the Lower Rhine, and another, the Alamanni, pouring into Alsace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a town on the Upper Rhine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Simon Bischof and Clark, Hurd and Clayton in England; Daimler of Deutz on the Rhine, Riker and Wiegand of the United States, and others, have made improvements in the Otto system. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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