Every log in your drive is goin' into that backwater if she'll hold them.
Logs once ensnared in this backwater could be taken out only at the cost of much time and labour.
You'll bring every log out o' thatbackwater or I'll know why," he thundered.
That morning the Argonauts, who had passed the night in the backwater of the river, had two youths come to them.
I came up this backwater to try and get a moment's peace, and then stumble upon you fellows!
Here's our backwaterat last, where we're going to lunch.
In silence Mole rowed steadily, and soon they came to a point where the river divided, a long backwater branching off to one side.
My rod and cap were drifting rapidly away; but, after divesting myself of half my dripping garments, I recovered the rod in a backwater below the neighbouring wood.
A quick-eyed heron was standing motionless in a tranquil backwaterthirty yards up-stream; the scent of the bird was borne down by the water, and the vole caught it as it passed beneath the bank.
Hands went to the freeing of the sails, and the tiller swung round to bring the vessel out of the backwater beneath the cliff into the full run of the tideway.
Make for the other side," ordered Drake, "and lay to in the backwater under the bank.
The vessel itself, rocking to and fro, refusing to obey the helmsman, lurched from the quiet backwater into the swirl of the racing current.
The evening had naturally puzzled him, as a man will always be puzzled who has developed under the influence of the main tendencies of his generation, and who finds himself suddenly in a backwater of fanciful reaction.
For, though obliged to trade in thisbackwater of belief, he was in many respects a very modern mind.
These Larry filled with the soft, elastic moss that florists use, of which there is any quantity in the low backwater meadows of the river.
On the two punts in the backwater a great peace descended after the hilarity of their feast.
Immersed in his novel, he had not known a dull or lonely hour in that enchanted backwaterof Rajasthán.
VII On an evening of early June Martin, Rendell and Lawrence punted up a backwater of the Thames.
And now they were laid by in a backwater of life, like riddled battleships in need of overhauling.
The Prince, and he, and Christopher, their horses killed under them long since, had just won free of a hot skirmish at the rear of their retreating friends, and were left in a quiet backwater of the pursuit.
Cathcart Square was an old-fashioned backwater of this highly respectable suburb.
Here in this quiet backwater of the world, for so it would seem to a man of his wealth and position, he could continue his negotiations with the somewhat obstinate Iris.
That we should both have travelled half across the world to meet with a crash in a backwater at Basra was one of the strangest freaks of fortune I have come across.
Eventually we saw her gradually come out of the whirlpool and drift slowly in the recanto or backwater on the opposite shore some 400 m.
The boat which they had left safely in the backwater a minute before, was now racing down the stream with sails full set.
He had no importunate correspondents, his next book was as good as placed, and all he desired at the moment was to cut the painter, and drift into some quiet backwater where he could lie up till life should wear a more cheerful face.
The little backwater into which they had turned seemed to terminate in a bed of lilies whose faint fragrance almost enveloped them.
I want to go to a littlebackwater in the next stream.
You shall take me to a backwater after dinner, Sir Timothy.
The Winning of the Golden Fleece [Decorative first letter] THEY took the ship out of the backwater and they brought her to a wharf in the city.
That any one should propose a tour in Siberia seemed a joke at first; when Sylvia found the suggestion was serious, she plunged back with a shiver into the warmer backwater of Odessa.
At last the flotsam that had been stirred up by the alarm of the bombardment drifted together again and stayed idly in what was, after all, still a backwater to the general European unrest.
I had been thrown up out of the freemasonry of the preliminary struggle into a kind of backwater of established second-rateness, where there were also second-rate manners and morals and social perceptions.
Illustration: VIEW OF THE QUAI VERT] The course of this backwaterhas long since been entirely changed.
Baldwin's new Bourg was built on an island formed by a backwater of the Roya--an irregular-shaped strip of land of considerably smaller dimensions than the island of the old Bourg.
B Backwater of the Roya, upon which Baldwin's new Bourg was built, 11, 12.
The low sandy tract of land on each side of the backwateris the abode of these fishermen.
We were coming down stream, and had pulled up to have tea in a backwater near Windsor.
WE left Streatley early the next morning, and pulled up to Culham, and slept under the canvas, in the backwater there.
The river is sweetly pretty just there before you come to the gates, and the backwater is charming; but don't attempt to row up it.
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