But many of these last consist of several books; and the whole of his remains together still form a golden stream of Greek erudition, exceeding four times the collective bulk of the Iliad and Odyssey.
The May-pole on the margin of that poetic stream completed the illusion.
She thought to ford the stream at the very place where the light had been first seen, but was dissuaded on account of the height of the flood.
That moment Bran gave the torches such a push with her shoulders, that they fell into the stream which ran around the dun, and were put out.
They had just singed the straw a little, when Bran pushed them off with such force that they fell into the stream and were quenched.
The fresh-water stream will give water for the "billy" tea and for the horses to drink.
Climbing down a mountain gully, you came to its end, apparently, in a stream of water gushing from out a wall of rock.
The two Anstruthers are divided only by a small stream called Dreel Burn.
Denudation in earliest Eocene times has produced flint gravels above the chalk, and an ancient stream deposit of chalk pebbles occurs at Ballycastle.
The right wing of the position was covered by the Antietam as it approaches the Potomac, the upper course of that stream formed no part of the battlefield.
An amorphous modification of antimony can be prepared by heating the metal in a stream of nitrogen, when it condenses in the cool part of the apparatus as a grey powder of specific gravity 6.
Early on the 19th the corps of Sumner and Mansfield followed Hooker across the upper stream whilst McClellan's left wing (Burnside's corps) drew up opposite Lee's extreme right.
They show us that emigration from the mother country has multiplied five or six fold, and that the great stream of it is directed to America, a country which is flourishing under protective laws.
At its bottom," he says, "a stream of water could be seen winding its way along it, the great depth causing it to appear like a mere riband.
There were rocky glens cutting across the road, and occasionally a brawling stream ran down to the salt water, breaking the line of cliffs with a little bay and a half-moon of yellow sand.
But in spite of this apparent subordination to the stream in the matter of a name, the mountain clearly asserts its natural authority.
Confine the fluid contents of the noblest stream in a walled channel of stone, and it ceases to be a stream; it becomes what Charles Lamb calls “a mockery of a river—a liquid artifice—a wretched conduit.
The bed of the stream has been scooped out of the solid rock.
You pluck a leaf of it as you turn out of the stream to find a comfortable place for lunch, and, rolling it between your fingers to see whether it smells like a good salad for your bread and cheese, you discover suddenly that it is new mint.
A mile farther down there is an islet where the stream quickens, chafes, and breaks into a rapid.
Nor was the fortune of the day much better in the stream below.
The murmur of the stream and the tinkle of the cow-bells and the jödelling of the herdsmen far up the slopes, make the music for the scene.
Keep just enough pressure on him to hold the hook firm, and follow his troutship down the stream as if he were a salmon.
There was still an hour or so of daylight, and a beautiful place to fish where the stream poured swirling out into the lake.
Once a river guardian, who was walking down the stream with a Belgian Baron and encouraging him to continue fishing, climbed out to me on the end of a long embankment, and with proper apologies begged to be favoured with a view of my document.
And the lake was probably the next on the ground, because the stream is its child.
The burn roars and leaps in the den; the stream chafes and frets through the rapids of the glen; the river does not grow calm and smooth until it nears the sea.
For the rest of that day you are bewitched; you follow a stream that runs through the country of Auld Lang Syne, and fill your creel with the recollections of a boy and a rod.
Indeed, it was well that I was so far fit to show my face, since I was to be plunged into the midst of the stream with a suddenness which startled, although it could not displease me.
It was now for me to do my best to capture it, though when I had fastened it to my skiff, it was with great difficulty that I could stem the stream with it, and reach them.
I had just accomplished "the shallows," and was now rowing hard against thestream opposite Boveney Church, when I was startled for the moment by the sounds of a number of female voices, some of which even amounted to screams.
It was drawn up the stream by three or four horses.
On coming to the fatal little stream in the valley which divided the parishes, I became sensible that I had no strength to clear it, and that, should I attempt it, a total submersion must inevitably be the result.
It contained the two sides of an extensive valley, sweeping gradually down to the Winthra, a beautiful trout-stream murmuring along the ravine.
One night, during his and my middle watch, the forecastle sentries hailed a large sampan, like a Thames barge, drifting down stream and threatening to foul us.
By degrees I got within twenty yards of the bank, was counting joyfully on the rest which a few more strokes would bring me, when - wsh - came a current, and swept me right into the middle of the stream again.
The space remaining to be forded was at least two hundred yards; and the stream so strong that I was obliged to turn my mare's head up it to prevent her being carried off her legs.
The enormous increase of lunacy in late years is a straw that shows how the stream runs.
Reaction, however, is the eddy in the stream; and it is the stream and not the eddy that in the end counts.
The darkness rendered it impossible to measure with the eye the width and depth of the arch, but on stooping and feeling along the stonework, he found that the stream poured through an iron grating.
Drinking-water, by the way, is got from a little streamthat trickles into the lake just round the corner.
From it ran the stream whose course they were following, and a larger stream far to the right.
When he stood up, he found that the top of the grating was considerably higher than his head, but that his head was higher than the earthen embankments of the stream on either side.
The three young fellows were taking their evening meal in a tent pitched near the bank of a stream some twenty miles north of Dibrugarh on the Brahmaputra.
I am almost sure of it--perhaps the stream that runs across the plateau.
But a stream of incoherent babbling poured from the exhausted man's lips.
No doubt the timber would presently be fetched, and drawn along the stream into the lake, and thence to its destination.
Our mining must have weakened the embankment, the stream broke through and plunged into the pit, tons of water were decomposed by the mysterious rays, and the explosion has shattered everything with volcanic force.
Strolling at the rear of the orchard late one dark night, he was guided by the sound of running water to the stream which he and Forrester had observed on their first day upon the plateau.
While he was still looking at it in surprise, wondering where it came from, it was reinforced by a sudden swell, which carried the tiny stream across the floor of the cavern in a direct course for the open pit.
Forrester knew that if the bed of the stream were pierced, there would be a swift end to their tribulations.
I wish you to meet me to-night at the wall, where the stream flows under.
The only thing that attracted their attention was a stream flowing from north to south across the plateau.
In front of us was a huge fire of birchlogs; and over it we could see the top of the falls glistening in the moonlight; and the roar of the falls, and the brawling of the stream near us, filled all the ancient woods.
A feeling of awe came over me, as we lay there at midnight, hushed by the sound of the stream and the rising wind in the spruce-tops.
If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.
Typically the lowlands and stream courses are covered with dense jungle vegetation, and the slopes and higher hills are covered with grasses and brush.
In the western Atlantic, the poleward-flowing, warm currents of the Gulf Stream allow for the northern extension of the range of these birds to Bermuda.
He also knew that, in the course of a few seconds, he would be carried through the streaminto the shelter of the rocky point.
Owing to the formation of the coast at this place, a powerful stream ran between the rock and this islet at low tide.
They fell on the sand, and there formed four springs for a stream of cool and clear water.
On arriving at the door of Murad's apartment, he paused in alarm, for he perceived a slender stream of blood, which took its rise within the chamber.
Before her rolled a torrent, which carried down in its rapid waters huge blocks of stone, as any other stream would carry down logs.
Mr. Holmes looks at it and then he fires up all of a sudden and yells: "'Flash out a stream of blood-red wine!
We rolled a stream of ancient anecdotes over our tongues and drank till the Lord Archbishop grew so mellow in the mellow past that Dublin ceased to be Dublin to him, and resumed its sweeter, forgotten name of New York.
The ideas are very unequal and their course very jerky till we come to the second subject (D major), which swells out into a broad stream of impassioned melody.
I know you will feel this deeply, for you could appreciate the purity and beauty of that stream of love which flowed through her whole life.
Stop now," said Vane, and the boat glided on a little way and then the stream checked her entirely, right in the middle.
Now then, better keep along this side of the stream till we can cut across to the lane.
Better go up, and then you'll have the stream with you coming back.
For it is their business to prove the king of Navarre to have been a most successful, magnanimous, gentle, and grateful prince; in which character they have followed the stream of all historians.
Can angry frowns rest on thy noble brow For trivial things; Or, can a stream of muddy water flow From the Muses' springs; Or great Apollo bend his vengeful bow 'Gainst popular stings?
But Dryden, probably less from a superior degree of care, than from that divine impulse which he could not resist, has hurried along in the full stream of real poetry.
I am no slave; the noblest blood of Afric Runs in my veins; a purer stream than thine: For, though derived from the same source, thy current Is puddled and defiled with tyranny.
I thought I knew English music, yet here is a whole stream of it new to me.
By-and-by I was so fortunate as to suggest letting a small stream of water fall from a height on his head and face.
I had got some ten rods ahead, when I found that he was floating down stream with the current.
I had it understood that we must swim a western course down stream so that the current would help us in gaining the other side.
Well, after some thought, I climbed down on what seemed to be a tall spruce tree, and after I got down in the bottom I found a stream of cold water which seemed to be running in the direction from which I had come.
I found that I could not get anything to cross on, though I looked diligently for a boat, and to cross a stream some one hundred rods or so across at such a time of year as it was then meant something.
To reach the only available landing- place, they must again row up stream in the slack water on the Canadian side, their whole course being thus like the outline of the letter 'N'.
On leaving the American shore, they were obliged to pull up streamas far as possible.
Thus, then, a thought which does not pass through the thin fountain-stream of Consciousness may yet produce the same muscular twitches as if it were clearly present to the presiding Ego.
For it is the duty of Consciousness to control the stream sent up by Sub-Consciousness.
They spirit from the great deep of Sub-Consciousness into the thin fountain-stream of Consciousness, and fall back again into the great deep.
When the wind comes strong from an easterly direction the current of the Gulf Stream is partly turned to the westward.
There were but few great bends in this part of the river, much as the mighty stream twists about above New Orleans.
But the odd complication floated slowly down the streamtowards the bank of the river opposite the position of the Sylvania.
The flatboat came down the stream broadside to, though we saw it make two or three whirls as it advanced.
When I reached Market Wharf I found that the Islander had hauled out into the stream from the wharf where she had been undergoing repairs.
Because the current is swifter in the middle of the stream than near the banks, for the friction of the shore has some effect on its flow.
He informed me that the steamer seemed to be making the shortest course the bends of the stream would permit, and she was headed for the point behind which the Sylvania was concealed.
In this part of the river, the stream was full to the top of its banks, and in some places it overflowed them.
I find that in a strong easterly wind the Gulf Streamsets to the westward, and runs in among the Keys.
There was little to be seen besides the muddy flow of the stream all around us, and the fringe of trees that grew on the levee.
The Gulf Stream was with us, and we were making not less than ten knots an hour.
As the water was deep enough for the Islander in whatever part of it she went, I thought she would come within a few yards of our position, as that would lead her up stream by the shortest way.
As the mighty stream brings its load of mud down to the gulf, it is left there, and the same force works it to each side.
If we went out far enough, we should have the current of the Gulf Stream against us.
With commendable forethought, the first settlers had built their houses and stores some little distance back from the stream along the summit of a wooded ridge perhaps forty feet above the river at its midsummer low-water level.
A more tortuous way, traversed presumably by the fishers and hunters of the tribes, or perhaps by war parties in swift pursuit or retreat, held directly to the bank of the stream and passed along the front of the cliff.
The village of Windomville lay below, hugging the river, a relic of the days when steamboats plied up and down the stream and railways were remote, a sleepy, insignificant, intensely rural hamlet of less than six hundred inhabitants.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stream" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
