By the river of this ravine her pains overtook her.
The river canons of the Sierras of the Snows are better worth while than most Broadways, though the choice of them is like the choice of streets, not very well determined by their names.
Hereabouts the ranges have no foothills, but rise up steeply from the bench lands above the river.
We took a path that led directly to the river bank.
Out over the grass and down to the river's brink ran the gypsy who was no gypsy, but one of that far more sinister brotherhood, the dacoits.
Senorita Antonia, he is erecting a battery on the river bank, three hundred yards from the Alamo.
Still more striking are their queer camps on the edges of the fields or over on the river bank, with the firelight shining on their wild jolly faces.
I saw him whirl in the river swirl, and thresh his arms about.
And in the night he gripped me tight as I lay fast asleep: "The river's kicking like a steer .
There remained but a handful of brown warriors in one end of the boat when the advantage of utilizing their knowledge of the riverand of navigation occurred to Number Thirteen.
For an instant he tottered with wildly waving arms in an endeavor to regain his lost balance, then, with a curse upon his lips, he lunged across the box and over the side of the prahu into the dark waters of the river.
Their way led directly towards the apparent source of the river at the base of the cliffs, and as I neared this point I found the meadow dotted with huge boulders that the ravages of time had evidently dislodged from the towering crags above.
I am not of Barsoom, nor have I taken yet the voluntary pilgrimage upon the River Iss.
Perhaps a thousand feet from me the river broke, as it seemed, directly from the base of the cliffs, and as there seemed not the remotest chance for escape in that direction I turned my attention again toward the forest.
They presently separated to meet at a lonely spot on the river-bank two miles above the village at the favorite hour--which was midnight.
Away up the river so, and not another house about.
While Joe was slicing bacon for breakfast, Tom and Huck asked him to hold on a minute; they stepped to a promising nook in the river-bank and threw in their lines; almost immediately they had reward.
The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.
When they awoke, they gathered again of the fruit of the trees, and drank again of the water of the river, and then lay down again to sleep.
Beyond her he saw Miss Viner seated near the stone-rimmed basin beside which he and Anna had paused on their first walk to the river.
She rambled on aimlessly, following under the denuded boughs the path she and Darrow had taken on their first walk to the river.
Patches of blue appeared above them through the dwindling leaves, and presently the trees drew back and showed the open fields along the river.
She told me she'd left Sophy and Darrow in the path that leads to the river, and presently we saw them ahead of us.
No, my dear; but if your Black Beauty had not been wiser than we were we should all have been carried downthe river at the wooden bridge.
John, and took the bridle and gently turned me round to the right-hand road by the river side.
He had reached the mouth of the sewer and was in the river.
There remained no hope but to follow the trickling stream downward toward the river, into which his judgment told him the entire sewer system of the city must lead.
There, too, the river might be forded even if the Austrians had destroyed that bridge also; but here or elsewhere in the hills there could be no fording--the banks of the Ru were perpendicular cliffs.
The water in the river was of sufficient depth to completely cover the car--no sign of it appeared above the surface.
But finally he was successful, finding himself in a little clump of bushes on the river's brim.
Were you to give me your word that neither you nor Dejah Thoris would attempt to escape until after we have safely reached the court of Tal Hajus you might have the key and throw the chains into the river Iss.
It floated out upon the night, over the housetops, the crescent of the river, losing itself in the silence of the upper air.
Then she caught sight of the river, bending like a silver bow at the foot of Bellissime.
From her windows could be seen the crescent of the river, the masts of ships and the big chimneys of the Mississippi steamers.
The river itself, which nourished the grass and cows of these renowned dairies, flowed not like the streams in Blackmoor.
Who would have expected such a rise in the river in summer-time!
The valley was peopled withal: on the other side of the river was a little thorp, and there were carts and sheds scattered about the hither side, and sheep and neat feeding in the meadows, and in short it was another world from the desert.
Ralph held down his head, and he could not meet the old woman's eyes as she spake thus; and the maiden took herself out of earshot at the first words of the carline hereof, and was halfway down to the river by now.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the river" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
