We were shown large earth-dams, thrown across the embouchure of the torrent to prevent the floods injuring the palm-groves of New 'Akabah.
The embouchure of the Wady nourishes four distinct clumps of date-trees, well walled round; a few charred and burnt, the most of them green and luxuriant.
It is narrower but more than twice the depth at New Orleans, and yet narrower, because more divided, at its embouchure at the Balize, where a bar prevents ships drawing over eighteen feet of water from entering.
Passing the embouchureof the Opon, on the right bank of the Magdalena, evoked, in a special manner, memories of Quesada and his valiant band.
In fact, these rocks were at a considerable distance, and appeared to be in the broadest part of the embouchure of that river.
Between the corner towers, upon that part which runs immediately parallel with the Seine, there is a noble terrace, now converted into garden ground--which commands an immediate and extensive view of the embouchure of the river.
It was nearly midday, after leaving St. Louis, that we reached the embouchure of the Missouri.
The site of Portage des Sioux is about seven miles above {34} the town of Alton, and five below the embouchure of the Illinois.
Tracing along the bold facade of cliffs on the opposite shore, enveloped in their misty mantle of azure, the eye detects the embouchure of the Illinois and of several smaller streams by the deep-cut openings.
Two hundred yards from the embouchure of the avenue, it ran into it; and fifty paces further on Zeb came to a spot where the horse had stood tied to a tree.
With a strong pull upon the rein, he brought the mare short round, and rode back towards the embouchure of the avenue.
This was an embayment of green sward, where the savannah was bordered by the chapparal, and close to the embouchure of that opening--where it was supposed the murder had been committed!
At a stand in theembouchure of the side path, terror held him transfixed to the spot.
The ancient Alsium occupied the site of the place now called Statua; below it are the vestiges of the Portus Alsiensis, at the embouchure of the Rio-Cupino, a little to the east of Palo.
On the other side the country about the embouchure of the Hyrcanian Sea[746] is farther north than the farthest Scythians who dwell beyond India, and Ierna still more so.
A line drawn from this embouchure to the bottom of the Arabian Gulf, would give the boundary between Africa and Asia.
And if, farther, this diagonal should consist of a broken line, as that would be which stretches from the Caspian Gates to the embouchure of the Nile, passing by Thapsacus, your error will appear much greater.
This ancient embouchure of the Euphrates is now known as Khor-Abdillah.
Piezina, at the embouchure of the Danube, between Babadag and Ismail.
The breath is projected into the embouchure with modulated force.
In a long stretch of commonplace coast, the precise point of embouchure of a solitary canal cannot be so certainly fixed as to be decisive later between two which show close together in the same locality.
Illustration: The Sabaeus Sinus, embouchure for the double Hiddekel and Gihon.
About four degrees apart, the eastern makes embouchure to the original Phison, the western to the original Euphrates, and each in some mysterious manner is associated not only in position but in action with the canal itself.
A new and far more formidable work was constructed upon the Eastern or North-eastern promontory, formed by the embouchure of the river into the lake.
The breadth of this embouchure is a mile and a half, and the banks on both sides are high, steep, and little wooded.
Gorges tells us that the Indians inhabiting the region round about the embouchure of the Saco were sorely afflicted with it, "so that the country was in a manner left void of inhabitants.
It is curious to observe how the embouchure of the Penobscot is on either shore guarded by two such solitary ranges of mountains as the Camden and Mount Desert groups.
The Isles de Chooles are about three leagues from Peskatoue to the south-south-east from the embouchure of the river, where a great quantity of fish are taken.
The first, which corresponds to that made by Franquelin in 1684, is entitled "Embouchure de la Riviere comme M.
After a journey of twenty-four days from the Nile at Berber, we emerged from the mountain-pass, and from the elevated embouchure we obtained a sudden and most welcome view of the Red Sea.
This we were informed was the embouchure of the Somerset river from the Victoria N'yanza.
Advancing in this fashion, we at length reached the embouchure of the canon, and halted within its gloomy shadow.
I nodded assent to his request; and, turning back into the little bay, that formed the embouchure of the path, I pulled up under the shadow of the trees.
Then stands in expectant attitude, with eyes upon the embouchure of the upper path, scanning it more eagerly than ever.
It is the embouchure of a ravine, in short the pass he has been searching for, the same already known to the reader.
There is barely room for all on the bit of open ground by the embouchure of the ford road; and they get clumped into a dense crowd--in its midst their chief, Borlasse, conspicuous from his great bulk of body.
They perceive the embouchure of a path, that looks like the entrance to a cave, dark and forbidding as the back door of a jail.
Against one of these sketches are written the words "Embouchure de la rivière comme M.
On the 4th of September we started for the village of Chela, which lies west from Churra, at the embouchure of the Boga-panee on the Jheels.
As early as 1849 Bayern discovered palafittes in Lake Gok-chai and in Lake Paleostrum, not far from theembouchure of the Rion (Phasis).
Mr. Chantre states that on the lowering of Lake Toporovan, near the village of Choucha at the embouchure of the Koura, and in some other lakes on the coast of the Black Sea, indications of their existence have been observed.
To the east of the embouchure of the river, near St. Sulpice, and greatly covered by detritus.
Holstein fen district, near the embouchure of the river Elbe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embouchure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
