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Example sentences for "fordable"

Lexicographically close words:
forcible; forcibly; forcing; forct; ford; forded; fording; fordo; fordone; fords
  1. Hark how my subjects, storming through the streets, Vent on thy tribe accursed their well-based wrath.

  2. What credence lend you to the general rumor Of the river poison?

  3. Who crawls blinking forth from the loathsome recesses of the Jewry; 11.

  4. Between us and the wood ran a deep donga with a river only fordable in places flowing through it.

  5. The river, which ran along the whole front, was fordable in most places, but the banks were so steep, that only at certain points could artillery be got across.

  6. But as there was no bridge remaining near us for us to cross by, nor could a fordable place be found, this order could not be obeyed.

  7. Across the stream, which was fordable there, a young man and his younger wife, with the saddle-marks of the city on them, had their white nest.

  8. The river Ruhr was a wide but desultory stream, easily fordable in many places.

  9. Hamees crossed the Lovu to-day at a fordable spot.

  10. The feeders of the Marungu are not fordable just now, and no canoes are to be had.

  11. The village Bhoomlungtung, at which we are stationed is on the left bank of a branch of the Bhoomla nullah, a river of some size, but fordable in most places, its bed being subdivided.

  12. This is a large stream, not fordable at any time, nor passable in the rains; both banks are high, rocks of course break the stream, which is gentle at the points crossed.

  13. The following day started and reached Cooch Behar territory, after crossing a considerable but fordable stream.

  14. The Gumbur is a clear, good-sized stream, fordable about the rapids, bed narrow confined.

  15. The river is of moderate size, fordable in most places, but still well supplied with wooden bridges.

  16. These all partake of the usual nature of mountain torrents; they are all fordable during the cold weather, the principal ones being crossed at the heads of the rapids.

  17. The march was an uninteresting one; the only pretty part being the river that drains the valley, and it is one of considerable size, fordable in but few places; the rapids are frequent, but the intermediate parts flow gently.

  18. The Kamtee-chick is a small stream fordable at the rapids, the extreme banks are not more than 30 or 40 yards.

  19. The Darap is a considerable stream, but is fordable at the heads of the rapids.

  20. The only one not fordable in the above route, is the Karam Panee, but this does not hold good either above or below the place I crossed.

  21. No tributaries passed, the river fordable at rapids, but the road is not passable for guns.

  22. Is situated on the right bank of the Darap Panee, which is fordable at the heads of the rapids.

  23. Moreover, I observed from the profile of the work, the incredible height of the river, which often raises itself fifty feet over places fordable in the last of summer.

  24. At the lowest state of water, the river is fordable in many places above the falls.

  25. No, to wait there until the river was fordable was not to be thought of.

  26. The man whom I had sent soon returned, reporting that the river was falling, and would be fordable by the evening.

  27. Toward night he came cautiously forth, and finding the Chickahominy fordable within a few hundred yards, he succeeded in wading across.

  28. The river was low, but not fordable except at Coxe's Riffle, a few miles below Steubenville.

  29. The Agueda was now easily fordable in many places, but the boys determined to swim across, at a distance from the point at which the French army was now pouring forward.

  30. As the Coa was fordable at several points lower down, and the French could therefore have turned the position next day, the British troops fell back during the night behind the Pinhel river, where Picton's division was also encamped.

  31. Craufurd's front was guarded by the Agueda, a river only passable by two or three bridges and fords in wet weather, but fordable in many places in the dry season.

  32. The Nesqually is a very wide muddy torrent, fordable in places where the stream is much divided by islands.

  33. Our provisions will be expended today and Lachalet said he thought the river would be too high to be fordable in either direction.

  34. To the north lay the fordable streams near Caswell City, and that way was perfect safety, it seemed.

  35. He had ascertained that the Kabul river was not fordable for Infantry except at a point which was commanded by the enemy's camp, and was too far from support to warrant piquets being pushed across at night.

  36. It is said that Wellesley had no information that the Kaitna was fordable there, but that he inferred it from the fact of there being another village opposite Assye, and no sort of bridge.

  37. He occupied a line of high ground with the fordable stream of the Albuera in front of it.

  38. After that the country began to open out: the river broadened and was fordable in several places, and the fugitives would have the choice of several routes, either to the right or the left.

  39. How they got across again, at a fordable place higher up, just in time to see the Confederacies cross again, at a fordable place lower down, I will not pause to tell you, as such information might retard enlistments.

  40. At low water, it is fordable in many places, but when the clouds hang low upon the mountains and give out their showers, it roars, foams, tumbles like a cataract.

  41. It is fringed with forests and bordered by marshy lands, which at high water become impassable swamps, but at low water the stream is fordable in many places.

  42. The Agueda is fordable in several places, the best passage being within pistol-shot of the walls.

  43. Fredericksburg lies upon fairly level ground, immediately upon the southern bank of the Rappahannock, which at that point is not fordable at any season.

  44. The river in his rear was at that season very low and easily fordable at almost any point at which a crossing might be attempted, so that it offered no barrier to a retreat of the Confederates, if retreat should be forced upon them.


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