You may read the history of the being of half the earth in one of those green oval leaves--the things that the sun and the rivers have made out of dry ground.
After careful examination they came to the conclusion that the ridge dividing the waters of Tennessee and Little Rivers struck the Holston River at the mouth and at no other point.
By this treaty the Cherokees ceded two large tracts of country[233] in exchange for one of equal area on the Arkansas and White Rivers adjoining the territory of the Osages.
They must have struck inland after that for we are told that later they built a raft and floated down one of the great rivers of India.
From Belize he returned by water in a "pitpan," a freight boat for shallow riversthat can easily upset in the slightest current.
He first travelled along all the rivers of Middle and Eastern China to classify the fresh-water molluscs of those regions.
The rivers swarm with fish, and the land with human beings.
Northumberland extended from the Potomac to and across the Rappahannock River and from the tip of "Northern Neck," as the territory lying between the two rivers was called, indefinitely westward.
The description of its bounds besides mentioning the usual rivers and ridges names also several persons which always draws the reader's interest.
Despite the fact that the colonists were in a region where rivers and numerous streams afforded easy transportation interrupted only for short periods by ice in winter, attendance at court in Jamestown was burdensome.
Within the bounds of Alleghany County the Jackson and the Cow-pasture rivers unite to form the James River, the longest river in the state and the most important in its early history.
In its bounds, the lands of Isaac Sonners and Jackson Jarrell, and the New, Coal, and Guyandotte rivers are noted.
Its bounds were "from the west side of Skimeno Creek to the heads of Pamunkey and Mattapony Rivers and down to the head of the west side of Poropotank Creek.
From hence flow the White Nile, the Djyr, the Bahr Culla, the Congo, and several rivers of the coast of Zanguebar.
Hippopotami abound in the rivers in the vicinity of the town, when young, the flesh and skin of these animals are sold as food, and whips and other articles are made of the skins of the old ones.
The roofs of the houses were represented to be covered with plates of gold, that the bottoms of the rivers glistened with the precious metal, and the mountains had only to be excavated, to yield a profusion of the metallic treasure.
He describes the stream as very broad and rapid, probably from having seen it during the rainy season, when all the tropical rivers of any magnitude assume an imposing appearance.
Prevalent as this opinion is amongst the Arabs, late discoveries have proved it to be decidedly erroneous; the river or rivers which water Houssa, being wholly distinct from that great stream which flows through Bambarra and Timbuctoo.
During the rains, when its tributary rivers pour in thrice the usual quantity of water, it inundates an extensive tract, from which it retires in the dry season.
Whether any, and what rivers fall into the Quorra at or near that place; or whether the whole or any part of the Quorra turns to the eastward.
Only spring and freely-running water of rivers and creeks and of lakes is commonly free from microscopic animals and their eggs, and therefore devoid of all danger in these respects.
And now the winter approaching, the rivers became so covered with swans, geese, duckes, and cranes, that we daily feasted with good bread.
The pledges there given were to hold their sanctity "while the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure.
The rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
The fleets he had built, the strong forts and towns he had erected at the mouths of the variousrivers throughout his empire, were neglected by his successors, and what he foresaw came to pass.
By rivers of their fathers' gore His first-born laurels grew, And well he deemed the sons would pour Their lives for glory too.
She wrote a poem, On Leaving Kentucky, the first stanza of which is as follows: Farewell to the land in which broadrivers flow, And vast prairies bloom as in Eden's young day!
The contrast between the two rivers is very striking, the one being as pure and limpid as the other is foul and muddy.
I am told that rivers intervening, to cut off cartage by wagon to competing lines, have sometimes effectively influenced the charges.
The short-line distance between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers lies entirely within the state of Missouri.
Throughout the colonial period, the protected coast waters and navigable rivers as far inland as the "fall line," rendered the problem of long distance transportation relatively easy.
The practical disappearance of the Mississippi river traffic also points to the decline in importance of the great rivers as rate regulators, except in respect of the carriage of ore, lumber, and coal.
As for water carriage elsewhere, the rivers soon followed the canals in steady decline of relative importance.
An enormous steam and flat boat tonnage on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers had grown up to care for this trade.
Even on the lesser rivers this phenomenon of neutralization of water competition occurs.
The mills had moved in from the rivers and the coast, and had become absolutely dependent upon rail transportation for reaching markets.
Descending the divide between the Kings and Kaweah Rivers you come to the grand forests that form the main continuous portion of the belt.
I will not leave my home, but be with the spirits among the rocks, the waterfalls, in the rivers and in the winds; wherever you go I will be with you.
Even the main rivers are so low they may easily be forded, and their grand falls and cascades, now gentle and approachable, have waned to sheets of embroidery.
Thus could be included the sublime scenery on the headwaters of these rivers and perhaps nine-tenths of all the big trees in existence.
He liked to watch her poring over the geography book to learn the state capitals and the principal riversof the United States.
The fields and woods and rivers of Wisconsin lay all about her like the walls of home.
The other rivers on both sides of the Canal would likewise require diversion channels, so that the final result would be roughly the formation of three channels, of which the centre one would be for navigation.
We should then see therivers pouring into this fjord in a number of cascades of various height.
Rivers more unsuitable than these to give us the average denudation of the earth’s surface could not well be selected.
Even in winter, when these rivers are frozen hard and the pines stand white and motionless under the Arctic frost, this is a good deal nicer.
There are a good many rivers among those ranges, and no bridges.
They had flung their wagon roads over thundering rivers and grappled with stubborn rock, and among them the soft-handed man who sought advancement through a woman's favor was, as a rule, regarded with quiet scorn.
Distance counts as nothing, and neither thundering rivers nor waterless deserts can deter them.
It is obvious, then, that ordinarily swift rivers in time of flood accomplish far more work of erosion (especially transportation) than during many days or even some months of low water.
The great fjords of Norway were, just before the Ice Age, stream-cut valleys which were then more or less modified by glacial erosion, and after the Ice Age the rivers in them were drowned due to land subsidence.
Few people have the slightest idea as to the enormous amount of earth material which the rivers are carrying into the sea each year.
Sand bars are then built across the mouths of the bays or indentations which later the rivers gradually fill up with sediment.
In most cases, however, rivers enter the sea where there are considerable tides and their loads are more widely spread over the marginal sea bottom.
The destination of most streams is the sea, and where tides are relatively slight the sediments discharged mostly accumulate relatively near the mouths of the rivers in the form of flat, fan-shaped delta deposits.
Among the great mountains we may also see wonderful exhibitions of the results of weathering and erosion, especially the work of rivers and glaciers.
Rivers as large as the Mississippi and the Missouri were also more or less locally deflected from their preglacial courses.
Most terraces along rivers are remnants of valley bottoms formed when the stream flowed at higher levels.
The shallow streams he has forded, the deep rivers he has swum.
It was when the earth was young and little: it was before the rivers had become wide and long, or the mountains lifted their peaks among the clouds, that this snail found himself passing a quiet existence on the banks of our own beloved river.
Trees were rooted up and broken; little streams had disappeared, even large rivers had ceased to be.
Its tributaries had no doubt been swollen by the awful rain and water-spouts, and poured into the great queen of rivers double their usual discharge.
To a stranger coming from the south towards the Amazon--great queen of all the rivers on earth--and not knowing he was on the borders of civilization, the sound that the huge saw made would have been decidedly alarming.
To the north-west of both these big rivers lies the great unexplored region, the land of the Bolivian and Peruvian cannibals.
Loved the sunshine of the meadow, Loved the shadow of the forest, Loved the wind among the branches, The rushing of great rivers Through their palisades of pine-trees.
Yet such rivers or big burns were the home par excellence of fish of the salmon tribe, and gazing below you might see here and there some huge otter, warily watching to spring on his finny prey.
Rivers to cross by fords that we might have had to travel leagues and leagues to find, lakes to bend round, marshes and swamps, where lurks a worse foe than your respectable and gentlemanly 'gators.
In slow Rivers cast your Fly cross them, let it sink a little, draw it back gently, without breaking or circling the Water; let the Fly float with the Current, and you will not fail of excellent Sport.
This Creature useth to lye near Rivers in his Lodging, which he cunningly & artificially builds with Boughs, Twiggs and Sticks.
Lastly, In clear Rivers a small Fly with slender Wings is best, and in muddied Rivers a Fly of a more than Ordinary large Body.
The greatest Eels lurk under Stones, or Roots; the smallest ones are found in all sorts of Rivers or Soyls: The Carp is for the deepest stillest part of Pond or River, and so is the Tench, and both delight in green Weeds.
At this festival the Lamas go in procession to rivers and lakes, and consecrate the waters by benediction or by throwing in offerings.
In the Pitt-Rivers collection at Oxford there is an image of this Bodhi-sattva engaged in combating the power of evil.
Hence in the present day a corpse is burnt, and its ashes are generally scattered on the surface of sacred rivers or of the sea.
In Burma people feed sacred fish, and save their lives in seasons when they would perish through the drying up of rivers and ponds (see p.
Lord Rivers and Lord Grey Are sent to Pomfret, and with them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.
Grandam, one night as we did sit at supper, My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow More than my brother.
Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by, And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son Was stabb'd with bloody daggers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rivers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
