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Example sentences for "quiet water"

  • Shad were mainly in quiet water; often, when the river-level was high, I found them predominately in backwaters or in the mouths of tributary streams.

  • Young-of-the-year were taken at the middle and lower stations on both the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes rivers, and all were near shore in quiet water.

  • Subsequently, by means of the shocker (26 June-8 July), two spent and two ripe males were captured in quiet water of the mainstream that closely resembled areas in which the gill nets were set.

  • Short-nosed gar were taken only in quiet water.

  • Another swing of the great tiller, and we had hauled up in the lee of the reef--in quiet water at last, but with the gale still screaming overhead like a defeated demon.

  • The sailor in him had quickly recognized that the craft would stand the weather, so long as she remained in quiet water.

  • There was a four foot skag or keel under the stern end of the boat, but this was only used when in quiet water; and as it was never replaced after being once removed we seldom refer to it.

  • We pointed out that Jensen, Utah, was only fifty miles away, half that distance being in quiet water, and that the worst canyon was behind us.

  • Here lay Glen Canyon, with 150 miles of quiet water.

  • Darkness came on before our boats were emptied, so they were securely tied in quiet water at the head of the rapid, and left for the morning.

  • Towing across a broad reach of quiet water, Earl laid the raft against the left bank about half a mile above where a pair of black rock jaws, froth-flecked and savage, seemed closing together in an attempt to bite the river in two.

  • And run we did, all of the last mile or more of Surprise Rapids and right on through the still swift but comparatively quiet water below.

  • Their perfect level, when deposited by quiet water.

  • This little vignette, then, will entirely complete the system of Turner's universal truth in quiet water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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