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Example sentences for "high bank"

  • Toward night reach Koyukuk River, and later on, Koyukuk village, a pleasant row of houses, white and native, on a high bank.

  • Quite a village, as usual along the water front on a high bank.

  • Just as I had cleared the suburb a man joined me from a cottage, on the top of a high bank, whom I recognised as the mower with whom I had held discourse in the morning.

  • Then getting on a high bank, in a minute or two he beheld one of them coming across the downs stripped of his coat, hat, and wallet.

  • We continued our course along several islands, and having made in the course of the day fifteen miles, encamped just above an island, at a spring on a high bank on the left side of the river.

  • We encamped at ten miles distance on the south side under a high bank, opposite to which was a low land covered with tall rushes, and some timber.

  • A] Here the Missouri is confined within a narrow bed, and the current still more so by counter currents or whirls on one side and a high bank on the other.

  • The town occupies rather a high bank of yellow clay, along which it extends for rather more than a mile, its extreme breadth being perhaps 350 yards.

  • Tsenkan is prettily situated on a high bank, or rather low hill.

  • Balabagh stands on a high bank of conglomerate, overhanging the Soorkhab, and is in danger of being cut away by the river.

  • Just as I had cleared the suburb a man joined me from a cottage, on the top of a high bank, whom I recognized as the mower with whom I had held discourse in the morning.

  • Serpa is a village of ninety houses, built on a high bank of variegated clay, whence its Indian name, Ita-coatiara, or painted rock.

  • This little village stands in a palm grove, on a high bank of ochre-colored sandy clay, beside a slue of sluggish black water, eight miles from the Amazon.

  • This point is generally known as the “«High Bank»,” and gives its name to these works.

  • In the rear of the mounds is the northern wall, extending to a high bank on either branch of Duck river, and opposite to a waterfall on each, of ten or twelve feet in height.

  • A little opening in the tall dark forest, in the centre some scrub jungle, including fragrant wild lemons and citrons, with the pool in the midst; a babbling stream flowed all round the opening, on the other side of which was a high bank.

  • The outpost is situated on a high bank overlooking a stream, and beyond it a splendid rolling slope of grass extending for miles.

  • I then lived for a week or so in a grass hut on a high bank, and the fresh air made my obstinate wounds begin to heal.

  • It is pleasantly situated on a high bank that is never overflowed.

  • It is situated on a high bank, above high-water mark.

  • Oxford is a fine situation for a town, being on a high bank of the Wabash, that is never inundated; the land good, and the timber fine, with some springs of excellent water.

  • About two miles on the road we come to a series of shallow pools, called the Laguinhos, which are connected with the river in the wet season, but separated from it by a high bank of sand topped with bushes at other times.

  • The next morning early we were passing up the Savannah river, and the city was in sight, standing among its trees on a high bank of the stream.

  • Next morning we were coasting the western shore of Lake Michigan, a high bank presenting a long line of forest.

  • Dixon, named after an ancient settler of the place still living, is a country town situated on a high bank of Rock River.

  • Ingiwan who is walking is confronted by high bank and is forced to cross the ocean.

  • So the strike-a-light became a high bank, and the alzados were on the other side and could not follow him.

  • As soon as he saw them he commanded his strike-a-light to become a high bank so the alzados could not follow him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    high cheek; high command; high crimes and misdemeanors; high forehead; high frequency; high hill; high land; high level; high mountain; high office; high place; high plateaus; high priest; high ridge; high tower; high tree; high voltage; higher form; higher things; highly seasoned; highly sensitive; highly specialized; highway robbery; little plant; parliament assembled; with orders