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Example sentences for "mountain stream"

  • But still the Arno is a mountain stream, and liable to be tetchy and turbulent like all its kindred, and no doubt it often finds its borders of hewn stone not too far apart for its convenience.

  • We stopped beside a mountain stream to bathe and eat a breakfast of canned sausages.

  • When he had finished the thick chocolate, one of the boys brought in a glass of water, fresh and sparkling from a near-by mountain stream.

  • We gained at once the foot of the hill and a mountain stream, and came to a small house, from whence we had heard the bark of the dogs.

  • I called off the dog, and we stepped out at a good pace up a narrow ravine by the banks of a mountain stream.

  • The Hurricane is a mountain stream, taking its name from a hurricane which raged near its mouth some time ago, leaving traces that are still visible.

  • To follow the sinuous course of a mountain stream through a pine-forest may look easy enough from a distance, but in reality to do so at all closely is almost impossible.

  • As he was coming away from such a loaf as this, he met Lilla wandering up the banks of a mountain stream, gathering berries and wild flowers.

  • Of course the railroad had to be constructed on a more circuitous route, which was found by following the general course of a mountain stream, rounding the head of its rivulets, and cutting or tunneling sharply projecting spurs.

  • Reaching back toward the wooded hill-side, fifty yards away, it receives the waters of a mountain stream.

  • A mountain stream, all of twelve feet wide and twice as deep, crossed the roadway.

  • Then, coming to a mountain stream, we sat down to take it easy until the sun had passed the zenith and it was a trifle cooler.

  • The night passed without an alarm of any kind, and before sunrise we were stirring around, preparing a few small fish Alano had been lucky enough to catch in a near-by mountain stream.

  • But in any case it is a piteous sight to see a mountain stream, perhaps the most beautiful of all Nature's works, flowing befouled through the fair scenes of which it should be the centre and the chief adornment.

  • His outward man fitted his environment as a grey mossy rock blends with a mountain stream; and one likes to have it so, for the Nature poet is sometimes in habit and person rather painfully at odds with the scenes of which he sings.

  • In due time they arrived at Allevard, a pretty village, through which flowed a mountain stream of considerable size that furnished power for a large number of windmills, iron foundries, and factories.


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