Douville more justly concludes that it is the gift of the Cuanza River, whose mud and ooze, silt and débris are swept north by the great Atlantic current.
Of course, in skirting the southern side, we should not have approached so near the stream, where bluffs and débris rendered travelling hopeless.
The temperature of the cold current which was perceptible in the parts of the mass of débris where the ice existed was 1° R.
The first warning received by the former was when the débris of the Artemps bridges floated down-stream.
All the countryside, its débris and its shell-holes, was covered with a mass of very coarse grass.
The walls are found amid the débris of fallen roofs.
The mounds of fallen débris found throughout Yucatan represent the first buildings in that country, and date from about the ninth to the eleventh century.
We have seen it, as have others, on the ruins of the mainland; but more, we have found it on the walls buried under the débris of fallen roofs in the islands.
Captain Ducie, hunting about among the débris of the train, was not long in finding the fragments of M.
Then with a thunderous growl a huge slab of rock and earth and débris crashed down upon the packed hordes in the neck of the pass.
All sorts of débris filled the fields and everywhere there seemed to be a thick deposit of blackened earth.
Combining with the neighboring mountaineers, they rose one night and utterly demolished all three of the avenues, uprooting the young trees, leaving the ways strewed with débris and wholly impassable.
The floor of the Cirque, far from being level, is blocked with snow and the débris of falling rock.
Certainly not among those brown beasts whose scrambling up that steep face was sending a shower of stones and débris down into the silent glen below.
The large amount of débris and the comparative thinness of such walls as are found suggest that the dwellings had been densely clustered, and carried to the height of several stories.
Along the outer margin of the pueblo occasional fragments of walls define former rooms, but the amount and character of the débris indicate that the inner area was almost completely inclosed with buildings.
In the first of these the deep jambs of the opening are clearly defined, but in the other two only low mounds of débris suggest the gateway.
The entire surface of the hill is covered with scattered débris of fallen walls, which must at one time have formed a village of considerable size.
This débris covers the entire area extending down the east slope of the hill to the site of the church.
The débris scattered about the pits indicates the manner in which they are covered with slabs of stone and sealed with mud when in use.
Most of the débris about the ruin consists of small stone fragments and sand, comparatively few stones of the size used in the walls being seen.
The plans, as published, indicate the relative amounts of débris as seen upon the ground.
The plan of the fallen walls and lines of débris by which the form of much of the old pueblo can still be traced is given in Pl.
These points were then platted, and the walls and lines of débris were carefully drawn in over the framework of lines thus obtained, additional measurements being taken when necessary.
Yet the débris of masonry may have been largely covered up by drifting sand.
At the present time this site is only a low mound of sand-covered débris with no standing fragment of wall visible.
Where the walls have fallen the débris is comparatively free from earth, indicating that adobe has been sparingly used.
In a few minutes a throng of officers and men who had scrambled over the débris filled the roofless rooms and packed the stairway where Gordon was struck down.
The tomb was subsequently levelled to the ground by an explosion of gun-cotton and the débris was cleared away.
It was seen that infantry might have clambered over the débris to the top of the structure and jumped down upon the other side.
There was but little space between the quay wall and the buildings, for the débris of bricks and stone from the overturned structure nearly blocked up the former open promenade facing the muddy Blue Nile.
Noah and his three sons and his three daughters-in-law marched into the ark dragging after them some wiry, emaciated débris of the Jardin des Plantes, which looked as if they had not eaten for a week.
He bent down mechanically and picked up half a brick; then just as mechanically he bowled the half-brick at the lump of débris behind the broken bit of the wall.
He found his own bitter explanation of the sudden storm that had burst among the débris of dessert on the Harley Street dinner-table.
Afterward, the condition of the field, which had been literally plowed up with shell fire and strewn with the débris of cannonading and accouterments, showed how terrific the conflict had been.
By afternoon the city seemed deserted--nothing but débris of fallen buildings and wreckage met the eyes, and a small remnant of the population was still struggling for escape.
Its ungainly features of shafts, chimneys, and mounds of débris are relieved in places by woodlands, an appearance of a hilly country is presented where the pit mounds have been planted with fir trees.
Of the houses, only heaps of stones and débris remain.
Inside the park a heap of débris and stones marks the spot where the castle stood.
Before reaching the latter enormous heaps of ammunition and débris will be seen.
Notice the Whale-back clouds on Erebus, the débris cones on the Ramp, and the anemometer pipes which had to be cleared during blizzard by way of the ladder at the end of the Hut.
It is, as you may choose to call it, an inchoate poem or the débris of a poem.
The volcanic débris was shot up from the crater many miles high, and the heavier portion of it fell upon the sea for several hundred miles around, and was found to be mainly composed of very thin flakes of volcanic glass.
The catkins of some alders by a little pool have just swelled perceptibly; and, brushing away the dry leaves and débris on a sunny slope, I discover the liverwort just pushing up a fuzzy, tender sprout.
While they went off to find my companions and the débris of the balloon, I followed my new guide towards the village in order to lose no time in preparing a way to leave the district as quickly as possible.
Sometimes the bed of a spring if sifted to get rid of pebbles and other débris will reveal gold enough to make the finder certain that there is a rich gold vein close by.
He consecrated those hours to his chosen work, and it was his object to fit himself, as by a species of training, to make the most and best of that good time, which lay like gold among the débris of the day.
Only a twisted pile of débris was to be seen where that house had stood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bris" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
