Rivers

Examples

• Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He must have been a bad man, observed Mr. Rivers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Mr. Rivers, I have been _so_ gay during my stay at S-. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was the great strategic position at the West between the Tennessee and the Mississippi rivers and between Nashville and Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Smith, embracing the mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, had been added to my jurisdiction. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Hannah entered with the intimation that a poor lad was come, at that unlikely time, to fetch Mr. Rivers to see his mother, who was drawing away. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The name, then, of that gentleman, is Mr. St. John Rivers? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Some of the water gradually took the form of rivers, lakes, streams, and wells, as now, and it is this original supply of water which furnishes us all that we have to-day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Brooks and springs formed in this way are constant feeders of rivers and lakes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In the summer of 1911, prolonged drought in North Carolina lowered the rivers to such an extent that towns dependent upon them suffered greatly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He says: Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The bends of the rivers are such at this point as to almost form an island, scarcely above water at that stage of the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The rivers flowed with wine and milk: The oaks yielded honey; and nature spontaneously produced her greatest delicacies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If we took the other route, Brandy Station could be used as a base of supplies until another was secured on the York or James rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For three days the snow fell, ice stopped the current of the rivers, and the birds flew out from crackling branches of the frost-whitened trees. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You unbend your forehead at last, said Mr. Rivers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The tribe, or the chief as the head of the tribe, owned the grazing lands; forest and rivers were the wild. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The burning rivers of oil were a reflection of the golden treasures which flowed into the hands and pockets of thousands as from a perpetual fountain touched by some great magician's wand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The common supply of rivers is from springs, which draw their origin from rain that has soaked into the earth. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is quite another to reproduce in one place the exact inflection, tone, and quality of a voice that is speaking hundreds of miles away, across rivers and mountains. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Rivers flowed back towards their sources; peaks and lofty mountains where countless trees had grown for ages rolled crumbling to the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Leastways, lambs,' said Riderhood, observing him out of the corners of his eyes, 'that's wot I my own self sometimes ketches in rivers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Iron girder bridges were also constructed, and thus the railway trains were carried across roads and narrow rivers at any required inclination, supported on flat beams of iron. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Did Rivers spend much time with the ladies of his family? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You did, Mr. Rivers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Its galleys could have penetrated up the rivers to the heart of Russia and outflanked every barbarian advance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But wot else is it, my lambs, as they sometimes ketches in rivers? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The same year Oliver Evans used a stern paddle wheel boat on the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Volunteers were called for from the army, men who had had experience in any capacity in navigating the western rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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