With all of the tributaries of these rivers, and with the hills and mountain passes, the Indians were familiar; in this respect they had the advantage over the military.
Now the Sun river valley and its tributaries have developed into some of the most extensive and wealthy settlements in the state.
Sitting Bull had his forces on the tributaries of the Big Horn river, in what is now Custer county, Mont.
The number of tributaries is given by Aristophanes as 1000, but this is greatly in excess of those named in the tribute lists.
With its tributaries the river drains an area of 1000 sq.
Its main tributaries in New York are Mongaup and Neversink rivers and Callicoon Creek; from Pennsylvania, Lackawaxen, Lehigh and Schuylkill rivers; and from New Jersey, Rancocas Creek and Musconetcong and Maurice rivers.
The tablelands of Talampaya and Ischigualasta, which are cut across by the gorges of the tributaries of the Bermejo, form one of the most conspicuously desert regions in the whole Republic.
But further south, Lakes Viedma and Argentino are still tributaries of the Atlantic.
The exploitation of the woods is in that case a very old industry on the tributaries of the left bank.
On the right bank, on the contrary, the Parana has no tributaries of any importance except at the extreme north of the country.
The Ohio River is another of the great tributaries of the Mississippi.
On reaching the pagoda, we found ourselves near the right bank of the Fu Chiang, one of the chief tributaries of the Chia-ling.
Humboldt first tested the power of the gymnotus, or electric eel, large numbers of which are met with in all the tributaries of the Orinoco.
The following day the explorer passed the mouth of the Ucayale, one of the most important of the tributaries of the Marañon, and which might even be its source.
From north-west to north-east extends a confused sea of mountains, the crests and ramifications of the Trans-Himalaya, intersected by the northern tributaries of the upper Tsangpo.
We were now on the heights whence the water flows down to three of the northern tributaries of the Brahmaputra; the third flows to the Chaktak-tsangpo, which runs to the west of Saka-dzong.
Several tributaries come in from the sides, and towards evening the river rises, containing quite 280 cubic feet of water.
In our holy books it is written that if all the tributaries failed, the lake would not sink and disappear, for it is eternal and is the abode of high gods.
We had left several tributaries behind us, and the main stream carried only 1554 cubic feet of water.
All the northern tributaries which flow into the two lakes from the valleys of the Trans-Himalaya are correctly noted.
Another lake which existed in this region when the ice was here, occupied the valley of the Baraboo and its tributaries when the ice blocked the valley at Baraboo.
As the valleys increase in width and depth, and as the tributaries become more numerous and wider, the topography of which the valleys are a feature, becomes more and more broken.
There is one peculiarity of the courses of tributaries which deserves mention.
By this process, the tributaries cut the divides between the main streams into shorter cross-ridges.
They are found in the valleys or canyons of the rivers Mancos and McElmo, northern tributaries of the San Juan, on the southern tributaries of which river are the ruins, already described, of the Chaco and Chelly canyons.
VIII-32] Also in the vicinity of Mirador, at the junction of two tributaries of the Santa Maria, is the fortress of Consoquitla, similar to the others.
I shall have occasion in the following chapter to notice some important ruins lately discovered on the northern tributaries of the San Juan, in the southern part of Colorado and Utah.
I find no mention of ruins on any of the smaller tributaries of the Gila above the Casa Grande, though it seems very probable that such ruins may exist, similar to those on the main stream.
XI-48] The two chief tributaries of the San Juan from the south are the Chelly and Chaco, flowing through deep canyons in the heart of the Navajo country.
It is apparent from the map that the numerous tributaries of the Ohio and the great valleys of the Appalachian range afforded many tempting paths of escape.
From this point fugitives seem to have been sent to Cleveland by rail, or to have been directed to follow the Alleghany or the Ohio and its tributaries north.
In Kentucky and western Virginia many fugitives were guided to free soil by the tributariesof the Ohio; while in central and eastern Virginia the ranges of the Appalachian chain marked the direction to be taken.
The tributaries flowing into the Ohio River from Virginia and Kentucky furnished convenient channels of escape for many slaves.
What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?
The shelling is now prosecuted principally above Black Rock, in the upper waters and tributaries of the Black River, as about Pocahontas and elsewhere.
But the Sheik interposed, reminding them, that his castle walls were sacred, and that if his tributaries chose to slay one another, they must seek the open field for the pastime.
In truth the doctrine savors much of the arrogance of man," gently returned the queen, "and reminds one of the false systems of a monarch who considers his subjects but tributaries to his pleasure.
The Thames forms the entire southern boundary; and of its tributaries Buckinghamshire includes the upper part of the Thames.
Its chief rivers are the Veyle, the Reyssouze and the Seille, all tributaries of the Saône.
It is drained by tributaries of both the Hudson and Delaware, and, next to the Adirondac section, contains more wild land than any other tract in the State.
One of the tributaries to Rock Creek within this limit is called Piny Branch.
It is also known in the Central Provinces near Mundla and along the tributaries of the Nerbudda.
It consists chiefly of a series of rich and productive plains, lying along the courses of the various tributaries which flow from Mount Zagros into the Tigris, and often of a semi-alluvial character.
On the east she had reduced almost all the valleys of Zagros, and had tributaries in the great upland on the eastern side of the range.
The Greater Zab is the most important of all the tributaries of the Tigris.
Since then he had avoided the Orinoco itself, and limited his excursions to the tributaries within easy distance of the advancing railway.
For a hundred and fifty miles above Ciudad Bolivar, Will soon knew most of the principal tributaries of the Orinoco.
The rivers and their tributariesare the commercial agents.
Indeed, all rivers are tributaries to the sea, and all seas tributaries to the rivers.
The banks of the Willamette below Portland are low and cut up by small tributaries or communicating lagoons which divide them into islands.
Several large caves were reported as being along the river and its tributaries farther down than these researches were carried.
Along the Missouri, earth was abundant right at hand, but stones had, as a rule, to be carried some distance; while on the bluffs of the Gasconade and its tributaries the reverse was the case.
The home of the Mongols, whose name signifies "brave men," was in the strip of territory between the Onon and Kerulon rivers, which are both tributaries or upper courses of the Amour.
The direction of variation in the Arkansas River is the reverse of that in the Platte and other tributaries of the Missouri River.
The species probably attains its greatest abundance in the Missouri Basin, but it is scarce or absent in tributaries north and east of the Missouri mainstream, in the South Platte Basin, and in the central part of the Platte River in Nebraska.
Missouri Basin and lower parts of major tributariesto Missouri River in Nebraska and Kansas.
Upper mainstream and tributaries of Rio Grande, Pecos, Arkansas and North Platte Rivers; isolated populations intributaries of the upper Missouri River.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tributaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
