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Sentences starting with mississippi

Mississippi steamboating was born about 1812; at the end of thirty years, it had grown to mighty proportions; and in less than thirty more, it was dead! [5]
Mississippi Improvement is a mighty topic, down yonder. [5]

Sentences ending with mississippi

The West is with me, and for the West I shall win the freedom of the Mississippi. [9]
In spite of untold privations and hardships, of cruel warfare and massacre, these people had toiled over the mountains into this land, and impatient of check or hindrance would, even as Clark had predicted, when their numbers were sufficient leap the Mississippi. [9]
The Nile at this point is muddy, swift and turbid, and does not lack a great deal of being as wide as the Mississippi. [5]
I went by the way of Cincinnati, and down the Ohio and Mississippi. [5]
I wouldn't miss the sight of 'em, Colonel, for all the cargoes on the Mississippi. [9]
In 1673 Joliet the merchant, and Marquette the priest, crossed the country and reached the banks of the Mississippi. [5]
And he reflected that Stephen must feel as strange in St. Louis as a cod might amongst the cat-fish in the Mississippi. [9]
Travelling by easy stages, on the afternoon of the second day after leaving Kaskaskia we picked our way down the high bluff that rises above the American bottom, and saw below us that yellow monster among the rivers, the Mississippi. [9]
When Red River proper was entered, a strong current was running directly across it, pursuing the same direction as that of the Mississippi. [5]
Clemens was now pretty well satisfied with his piloting story, but he began to have doubts as to its title, "Old Times on the Mississippi. [5]

Short sentences using mississippi

Uniforms on the Mississippi! [5]

Sentences containing mississippi two or more times

I have seen the ice in the Mississippi floating past the mouth of the Arkansas river; and at Memphis, but a little way above, the Mississippi has been frozen over, from bank to bank. [5]
A chap established a whiskey shop there, without a Mississippi license, and enriched himself upon Mississippi custom under Arkansas protection (where no license was in those days required). [5]

More example sentences with the word mississippi in them

Sometimes this log would lodge, and stay right across our nose, and back the Mississippi up before it; we would have to do a little craw-fishing, then, to get away from the obstruction. [5]
I wish you would go to the Mississippi River at once, and take hold of and be master in the contraband and leasing business. [7]
It is hardly worth while to consider the projects for relieving the Mississippi River floods by creating new outlets, since these sensational propositions have commended themselves only to unthinking minds, and have no support among engineers. [5]
It is in width, from Fort Adams on the left bank of the Mississippi to the bank of Rapides Parish, a distance of about sixty miles. [5]
But as we went back to the camp again he told me how the French had tried once to conquer this vast country and failed, leaving to the Spaniards the endless stretch beyond the Mississippi called Louisiana, and this part to the English. [9]
The finest thing we saw on our whole Mississippi trip, we saw as we approached New Orleans in the steam-tug. [5]
The Mississippi below was practically closed. [9]
Furthermore, Colonel Clark was off the next morning at dawn to buy a Mississippi keel-boat. [9]
And here it was at last, in a city west of the Mississippi River. [9]
In the distant valley of the Mississippi he had only heard of the President very conflicting things. [9]
Samuel Clemens, coming up the river on the A. T. Lacey, two days behind the Pennsylvania, heard a voice shout as they approached the Greenville, Mississippi, landing: "The Pennsylvania is blown up just below Memphis, at Ship Island! [5]
Apparently nobody happened to want such a river, nobody needed it, nobody was curious about it; so, for a century and a half the Mississippi remained out of the market and undisturbed. [5]
They had proved to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlantic. [5]
From this point to the Mississippi River, fifteen miles, there is not a spot of earth above water, and to the westward for thirty-five miles there is nothing but the river's flood. [5]
You are going to see the day, pretty soon, when you can't find an ounce of butter to bless yourself with, in any hotel in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, outside of the biggest cities. [5]
What he has to say about Mississippi River Improvement will be found in the Appendix. [5]
A runner came to me with the tidings, where I was building a fort on the Mississippi, and I took Willis here and Saunders, and came. [9]
You cannot pretend to lecture chiefly for men like that,--a Mississippi raft might as well take an ocean-steamer in tow. [3]
Mr. Dickens declined to agree that the Mississippi steamboats were 'magnificent,' or that they were 'floating palaces,'--terms which had always been applied to them; terms which did not over-express the admiration with which the people viewed them. [5]
I now come to a phase of the Mississippi River life of the flush times of steamboating, which seems to me to warrant full examination--the marvelous science of piloting, as displayed there. [5]
All this took time, for the Mississippi is not a French brook, like the Seine, the Loire, and those other rivulets, but is a real river nearly a mile wide. [5]
At Peoria Lake they struck open water, and paddled thence to the Mississippi and turned their prows southward. [5]
A glance at these tourist-books shows us that in certain of its aspects the Mississippi has undergone no change since those strangers visited it, but remains to-day about as it was then. [5]
In one of these camps we found Ab Grimes, an Upper Mississippi pilot, who afterwards became famous as a dare-devil rebel spy, whose career bristled with desperate adventures. [5]
Hannibal, Missouri]} on the west bank of the Mississippi River. [5]
Yes, there were the Walnut Hills, high bluffs separated from the Mississippi by tangled streams and bayous, and on their crests the Parrotts scowled. [9]
Those happening in the State of Mississippi and at St. Louis are perhaps the most dangerous in example and revolting to humanity. [7]
Please observe:-- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. [5]
I entered upon the small enterprise of 'learning' twelve or thirteen hundred miles of the great Mississippi River with the easy confidence of my time of life. [5]
It was only the second time either of them had been upon a Mississippi steamboat, and nearly everything they saw had the charm of novelty. [5]
A month later the secession atmosphere had considerably thickened on the Lower Mississippi, and I became a rebel; so did he. [5]
Some believed in the scheme of northern lake-reservoirs to replenish the Mississippi in low-water seasons. [5]
With nothing of the profession of arms save that born in the Carvels, he kissed Beatrice farewell and steamed down the Mississippi, a captain in Missouri regiment. [9]
Below us, on the one hand, a rocky bluff reached out into the river, and on the far side was a timber-clad point round which the Mississippi doubled and flowed back on itself. [9]
These instances of the navy and the Mississippi River show clearly that there is something of local advantage in the most general objects. [7]
People accustomed to the monster mile-wide Mississippi, grow accustomed to associating the term "river" with a high degree of watery grandeur. [5]
For instance, when the Mississippi was first seen by a white man, less than a quarter of a century had elapsed since Francis I. [5]
The changes in the Mississippi River are great and strange, yet were to be expected; but I was not expecting to live to see Natchez and these other river towns become manufacturing strongholds and railway centers. [5]
He floated down the Mississippi on a log, out of Vicksburg, and brought back thousands and thousands of percussion caps. [9]
In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain makes the period of his study from two to two and a half years, but this is merely an attempt to magnify his dullness. [5]
Hannibal lies at the extreme south-eastern corner of Marion County, on the Mississippi River; our objective point was the hamlet of New London, ten miles away, in Ralls County. [5]
Ordered also, That the country west of the Department of the Potomac and east of the Department of the Mississippi be a military department, to be called the Mountain Department, and that the same be commanded by Major-General Fremont. [7]
As stated in the case of Mississippi, it is probable they both voted for it. [7]
He always was the best pilot on the Mississippi, and deserves his "posish. [5]
It transfers to the banks of the Mississippi the incidents of a strange murder which was committed in Sweden in old times. [5]
He declared that the "piece" about the Mississippi was capital, that it almost made the water in their ice-pitcher turn muddy as he read it. [5]
You should see that Army of the Mississippi, sir. [9]
He agreed to teach me the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis for five hundred dollars, payable out of the first wages I should receive after graduating. [5]
Like the Mississippi steamboat which was so weak that when the whistle blew the engines stopped! [11]
Three miles below St. Petersburg, at a point where the Mississippi River was a trifle over a mile wide, there was a long, narrow, wooded island, with a shallow bar at the head of it, and this offered well as a rendezvous. [5]
Did he have something to say--this Shakespeare-adoring Mississippi pilot--anent Delia Bacon's book? [5]
These were the snatches which I heard as I picked my way onward with exaggerated fear:-- "Gentlemen, the Mississippi is ours, let the tyrants who forbid its use beware! [9]
The date was set for it several weeks in advance, and from that time forward, the whole Mississippi Valley was in a state of consuming excitement. [5]
No politician had scored such a compliment as this before in the history of the Mississippi Valley. [5]
It was Mississippi river water, the best in the world, and we stirred up the mud in it to see if that would help, but no, the mud wasn't any better than the water. [5]
The Mississippi is remarkable in still another way--its disposition to make prodigious jumps by cutting through narrow necks of land, and thus straightening and shortening itself. [5]
Latitude, elevation, and rainfall all combine to render every part of the Mississippi Valley capable of supporting a dense population. [5]
Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court were among the volumes that had entertained the world and inspired it with admiration and love for their author. [5]
The driving a pirate from the track of commerce on the broad ocean, and the removing of a snag from its more narrow path in the Mississippi River, cannot, I think, be distinguished in principle. [7]
Otherwise one would pipe out and say the Commission might as well bully the comets in their courses and undertake to make them behave, as try to bully the Mississippi into right and reasonable conduct. [5]
The Mississippi River pilot of those days was a person of distinction, earning a salary then regarded as princely. [5]
He says the people along here in Mississippi and Louisiana will send up the river to buy vegetables rather than raise them, and they will come aboard at the landings and buy fruits of the barkeeper. [5]
When the garden patches grew bare and brown, and the bleak winds from across the Mississippi swept over the common, untoward tidings came like water dripping from a roof, bit by bit. [9]
He bade his parishioners a hasty and tearful farewell, and he made a cold and painful journey to the territories of his Spanish Majesty across the Mississippi. [9]
North Carolina thus owned what is now the State of Tennessee; and South Carolina and Georgia owned, in separate parts, what are now Mississippi and Alabama. [7]
I have knocked out everything that delayed the march of the story--even the description of a Mississippi steamboat. [5]
With him as our guide we have traversed alike the Mississippi and the Sea of Galilee. [5]
There was no one to advise me, for Colonel Clark was far away, building a fort on the banks of the Mississippi. [9]
The early dawn on the water-nothing can be finer, as I know by old Mississippi experience. [5]
These doubtless opened on the Royal Road and looked across the levee esplanade on the waters of the Mississippi. [9]
I was piloting on the Mississippi when the news came that South Carolina had gone out of the Union on December 20, 1860. [5]
Last fall, my old mother--then 82--took a notion to attend a convention of old settlers of the Mississippi Valley in an Iowa town. [5]
Three of our officers--dare-devils, seh --floated down the Mississippi on logs. [9]
And this sort of watery camping out was a thing which these people were rather liable to be treated to a couple of times a year: by the December rise out of the Ohio, and the June rise out of the Mississippi. [5]
A large portion of this was under cultivation, particularly along the Mississippi and back of the Red. [5]
Helena occupies one of the prettiest situations on the Mississippi. [5]
At the beginning of the present Presidential term, four months ago, the functions of the Federal Government were found to be generally suspended within the several States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, excepting only those of the Post-Office Department. [7]
The Missouri side of the Mississippi is a very different country from the hot and treeless prairies of Illinois. [9]
Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity. [5]
The military engineers of the Commission have taken upon their shoulders the job of making the Mississippi over again --a job transcended in size by only the original job of creating it. [5]
By the end of summer Howells was in Europe, and Clemens, in Elmira, was trying to finish his Mississippi book, which was giving him a great deal of trouble. [5]
Thus, this center of population at the head of Mississippi navigation, will then begin a rivalry as to numbers, with that center of population at the foot of it--New Orleans. [5]
They touch thirteen of our States-Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa. [7]
As an example of New Orleans journalistic achievement, it may be mentioned that the 'Times-Democrat' of August 26, 1882, contained a report of the year's business of the towns of the Mississippi Valley, from New Orleans all the way to St. Paul--two thousand miles. [5]
At the end of nearly a week of travel, the party went into camp near a shabby village which was caving, house by house, into the hungry Mississippi. [5]
In the pride of his young ambition he had aspired to be a steamboat mate; and in fancy saw himself dominating a forecastle some day on the Mississippi and dictating terms to roustabouts in high and wounding terms. [5]
It was born of a railway; the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railroad touches the river there. [5]
These pupils did not hunt with a microscope, they hunted with a shot-gun; this is shown by the crippled condition of the game they brought in: America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey. [5]
Gently, slowly, with no profane inflexions of voice, but irresistibly as though they had the headwaters of the Mississippi for their source, came this stream of unholy adjectives and choice expletives. [5]
The reference to New Orleans at the end of this letter grew naturally out of the enthusiasm aroused by the Mississippi papers. [5]
For now the national government has turned the Mississippi into a sort of two- thousand-mile torchlight procession. [5]
I had met Monsieur Vigo many times since, for he was a familiar figure amongst the towns of the Ohio and the Mississippi, and from Vincennes to Anse a la Graisse, and even to New Orleans. [9]
I suppose the Missouri in like manner hates the Mississippi for diluting with its limpid, but insipid current the rich reminiscences of the varied soils through which its own stream has wandered. [6]
I suppose the Mississippi, which was flowing quietly along, minding its own business, hates the Missouri for coming into it all at once with its muddy stream. [6]
He was from Mississippi, he said, had been at Georgetown College, and was so far imbued with letters that even the name of the literary humility before him was not new to his ears. [6]
Spain closes the Mississippi, arrests our merchants, seizes their goods, and often throws them into prison. [9]
Confederate generals in Mississippi were bewildered. [9]
All the Upper Mississippi region has these extraordinary sunsets as a familiar spectacle. [5]
The State of Mississippi claimed 'to the channel'--another shifty and unstable line. [5]
My parents brought me to the village of Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi, when I was two and a half years old. [5]

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