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Example sentences for "swift current"

  • The creek was three or four feet broad, and about six inches deep, with a swift current of clear water, and tolerably cool.

  • The breadth of the stream, generally near that of its valley, was from two to three hundred feet, with a swift current, occasionally broken by rapids, and the water perfectly clear.

  • The stream is divided into various branches by small islands, among which it runs with a swift current.

  • Swift Current= is a divisional point of the Canadian Pacific Railway and a busy railway centre.

  • The Chinook winds are felt as far east as Swift Current.

  • West of Swift Current to the Alberta boundary herds of cattle roam and largely find for themselves.

  • As we were drifting along with a swift current in the afternoon, the day after passing Black's Fork, one of the party saw a deer on an island.

  • These waves broke up stream as waves do in a swift current, and as the boats cut into them at a high velocity we shipped quantities of water and were constantly drenched, especially the bow-oarsmen.

  • Illustration: Switchback Trail up Swift Current Pass] Mills laughed again, but said no more.

  • However, very soon after lunch, the trail suddenly left the canyon, and headed east right up the side wall, to Swift Current Pass.

  • If it comes on to rain, we'll make for Granite Park chalet, on Swift Current Pass.

  • It was not long before they crossed the tumbling green water of Swift Current River on a bridge close to a foaming waterfall, and brought up in front of a large hotel on the shore of a small green lake.

  • He was a Kootenay Indian, who could talk some Piegan and some Chinook, and it soon appeared that he was camped with fifteen lodges of his people under the chief Back In Sight, not far off on Swift Current Creek.

  • The valley of Swift Current is narrow and flanked on either side by high hills which, though at first rounded and grass-covered, grow steeper and nourish a growth of pines and aspens as one ascends the stream.

  • Maybe we've got to go away from the hills to where the grass is good and the flies won't bother much, or else, on a pinch, we can go up Swift Current.

  • Monroe, and I made a trip up Swift Current River, and discovered and roughly measured the big glacier at the head of its middle fork, Dr.

  • There is a swift current for a couple of miles, but afterwards the speed is gentler as the channel broadens, and Grand Island divides it.

  • Captain Lewis knew that for the hundreds of miles they now had to traverse, boats would be far more preferable to horses, because the going was all downstream, with a swift current, the river being in its spring flood.

  • We came down with a swift current," Roger admitted, "and it hardly seemed as if we could have been an hour on the way.


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