Tiber
['taibə]
Definition
(noun.) a river of central Italy; flows through Rome to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Edited by Gertrude--From WordNet
Examples
- The cheer which greeted his entrance was heard beyond the Tiber! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Latin tribes on the other side of the Tiber were by comparison barbaric. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Twice they actually marched right out of Rome, threatening to make a new city higher up the Tiber, and twice this threat proved conclusive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These Etruscan people conquered most of Italy north of the Tiber from the Aryan tribes who were scattered over that country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At one point upon the Tiber there was a ford, and here there was a trade between Latins and Etruscans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I will never forget Romulus suckling the Tiber. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Tiber, the road which is spread by nature's own hand, threading her continent, was at my feet, and many a boat was tethered to the banks. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Cincinnatus returning then would have recognised the plough in common use as about the same in form as that which he once abandoned on his farm beyond the Tiber. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I hailed the Tiber, for that was as it were an unalienable possession of humanity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Seth