He was watered at a watering-place on the roadside, where a crofter's cattle watered daily.
To the west, two streams, the Clange and the Surelle, watered the fertile valleys of Dalles and Dombes.
In order to remove the scourge, the Elders of the unfortunate villages watered by the Clange and the Surelle resolved to assemble and together go and ask the help of the blessed Mael.
Outside the Delta and the strip of land which can be watered from the river there is only desert.
Nippur was watered by the canal Kabaru, the Chebar of Ezekiel, and to the south of it was the city of Lagas, now Tello, where French excavators have brought to light an early seat of Sumerian power.
Its wadis were coveted by the tribes of the desert; the well-watered valley of the Arnon attracted more powerful foes.
Pinches has since discovered the last line of the hymn, in which the picture is completed by a mention of the rivers which watered the garden on either side.
Two of the rivers which watered it were the Tigris and Euphrates, the two streams, in fact, which we are specially told had been created and named by Ea at the beginning of time.
The cosmology of Genesis has its roots in the cosmology of Eridu, and the first home of mankind is placed by the Old Testament in Eden, "the plain" of Babylonia, which was watered by the Tigris and Euphrates.
It was the primitive centre of those engineering works which gradually converted the pestiferous marshes of Babylonia into a fruitful plain, watered by canals and rivers, and protected from inundation by lofty dykes.
However, I think the place worthy of settlement, and, probably, containing eight or ten thousand acres of land which may be watered and cultivated.
A mountain or round hill, perhaps 500 feet in height, rises in the midst of the town, and is surrounded on all sides by the level of the fertile, well watered and well cultivated plain.
Returning to camp, we journeyed eleven miles to Willow Creek the country being rich in grass, and watered by Salt Creek, a stream of one and a half rods wide, and several large springs running north into Utah Lake.
No work of man was ever watered with a purer blood than the restoration of Italy to the ranks of living nations.
While the chief watered his horse at a spring a Franciscan friar threw himself on his knees, and implored to be allowed to follow him.
Keep them well watered and watch their progress for a few weeks (see Fig.
They watered it, and in a day or two it sent forth long shoots, and became a vine, fine and delicate to look at, but tough as an iron wire.
Their mouths watered as they thought of onion-sauce, and of breadcrumbs, and of sage.
One warm summer day, Queen Blondina had just come in from rowing in her silver barge along the windings of the little river which watered the palace grounds.
It is better watered with springs, brooks, and mill-streams, than many other parts of New York, and among other advantages enjoys along the Hudson a succession of brilliant and noble scenery.
In some instances the race was made in the wagons, but in many cases a solitary horseman acted as pioneer and galloped ahead, in order to secure prior claim to a coveted, well-watered quarter-section.
Vaucluse, or Vallis Clausa, the shut-up valley, is a most beautiful spot, watered by the windings of the Sorgue.
We then sat down, and while I felt all their charms I let them touch me as much as they liked till I watered their hands a second time.
In this vast district watered by the Meuse is the town of Bouillon--a regular hole, but in my time it was the freest place in Europe.
Its soil, except in the more rugged and mountainous districts, is prolific, being well watered and bearing abundant crops of the ordinary cereals.
Austria-Hungary is well watered by the Danube and its tributaries and has a small extent of sea-coast on the Adriatic, its principal ports being Trieste, Pola and Fiume.
And though thy tears will not awake What lies beneath of young or fair And sleeps so sound it draws no breath, Yet, watered thus, the sod may break In flowers which sweeten all the air, And fill with life the place of death.
The numerous streams by which they are watered abound in the valuable fur-bearing beaver, whilst every species of game common to the west is found here in great abundance.
The mulberry of Valencia is the white, as being most suitable to a well-watered plain.
The excellence of this method is demonstrated by the beauty of the watered silk which issues from these presses.
Foz himself set us to judge of this by asking us to compare the blue ribbon of the Order of Charles the Third, watered by himself, with those of the Order of the Holy Spirit.
South of the Banyai country is the Batoka, in which is the Moltkaberg, watered by the Upa river, a tributary of the Luenya.
The Libyan barbarians reported that a fertile and well-watered district lay to the west and were induced to act as guides.
Castilian plain watered by the upper streams of the Guadiana.
Dacca is watered by a network of rivers and streams, ten of which are navigable throughout the year by native cargo boats of four tons burthen.
The plants should be well watered during their growing period, and the foliage sprinkled or syringed two or three times a day.
It is known by the name of the Mesaoria or Messaria, and is watered by a number of intermittent streams from the mountains on either hand.
The plants must be well watered in and, until established, shaded by a hand-light from bright sunshine.
The rocky and bare highland of Cuenca on the north and east includes the upper valley of the Jucar and its tributary streams, but in the north-west the province is watered by tributaries of the Tagus.
Each plant is placed in the centre of a mound of soil about a foot deep and well watered with tepid water.
Between the Yellow mountain and the Blacks lies that deeply embosomed valley region watered by the head-springs of the Nolechucky.
The valley watered by that prong of Richland creek, which rises in the balsams of the Great Divide and beech groves of Old Bald, is one of great beauty.
The broad valleys, watered by the Hominy and French Broad, stretch toward the eastern limit.
A famous fishing ground is that section of the great Smokies watered by the Cataluche.
To the north lies that level and fertile portion of East Tennessee, watered by the French Broad and the Holston.
Below, on the other hand, would lie fertile fields, watered by the noisy Elk, and enclosed on three sides by the dark and sober forests of the hemlock.
And in time poor Grip died, and as George had always done exactly as Gip did, he died too; and Gip was laid at the foot of one tree, and George at the foot of the other, and their graves were watered with loving tears.
These were watered from wells about forty-five feet deep, good water, which the people drew for our mares to drink.
The soil here looks richer than any I have ever seen in any part of the world, and it is well-watered and wooded with canora trees.
It would be well watered throughout, and in the Tigris Valley would have a supply of fuel.
Unlike the plains of Bagdad, which never can have been cultivated except with irrigation, the land here grows crops as in Europe, watered by the rain from heaven.
The extended valley, watered by this river, presented a lovely view as far as the eye could reach, with luxuriant fields of Indian corn and with groves of fruit trees.
He selected a position about ninety miles south of that city, in a rich and well-watered valley which opened upon the placid surface of the Pacific.
It was a wide, hollow, and melancholy Cave, sunk deep in a Dale, and watered by Rivulets that had a Colour between Red and Black.
