And let not wandering strangers fear That WYE is ended there or here; Though foliage close, though hills may seem To bar all access to a stream, Some airy height he climbs amain, And finds the silver eel again.
Illustration: View of the Wyethrough a Gateway at Crickhowel.
But the first thing I'll dae'll be to stand behind the door and catch him when he comes in, and tak' the strap to him for the rideeculous wye he didna write to us.
It was the same when the Hielan's was the wye ye read aboot in books, and every Hielan'-man wore the kilts.
This use of what may be called basket weirs [p153] is peculiar to the Wye and the Severn, and has been adopted to meet the difficulty presented by the unusual volume and rapidity of the tidal current.
But the best illustration of what they were may be derived from the arrangements now at work for catching salmon in the Wye and Severn.
According to the Welsh legends of the Liber Landavensis[181] this was about the time when the diocese of Llandaff was curtailed by the Wye instead of the Severn becoming the boundary between the two kingdoms.
This mode of fishing is also peculiar to the Wye and Severn.
This clumsy process of catching salmon is the ancient traditional method used in the Wye and Severn fisheries, and so tenaciously is it adhered to that the fishermen can hardly be induced to substitute more efficient modern improvements.
It is clear that on the Welsh side of the Wye Welsh instead of Saxon customs prevailed, and that these were some of them.
Since the opening of the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway, in 1855, and the consequent dissolution of the Towing-path Company, nearly all navigation on the Wye above Monmouth has ceased.
In 1661 he secured further Acts for making navigable the rivers Wye and Lugg and the brooks running into them in the counties of Hereford, Gloucester and Monmouth.
The Wye was found to be an exceptionally difficult stream to tame and control, and Sandys' attempt to make it navigable by locks and weirs on the pound-lock system was a failure.
And I went from time to time to visit him at Wye Island, when he would canter with me over that magnificent plantation, and show me with pride the finished outcome of his experiments.
But there was surely no comparison between the situations of the master of the Belle of the Wye and an officer in the Royal Navy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wye" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
