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Sentences starting with river

River men along the levee heard that signal and laughed. [9]
River de la Planta. [11]
River and forest became stern, the men silent. [9]

Sentences ending with river

You shall have your chance to live, but I shall throw you in the river, and you can then fight the river. [11]
The Rhine satisfies you, and you do not recall any other river. [4]
I have blessed you so, My lips upon your lips; between must flow The river--Oh the river! [11]
This will give you control of both banks of the river. [7]
The schoolhouse stood with pines about Upon the hill, and ever A creek, where hid the speckled trout, Ran past it to the river. [11]
The worthy doctor, who had baptized both my mother and father, died suddenly at Carvel Hall the spring following, of a cold contracted while visiting a poor man who dwelt across the river. [9]
So after a while I said I would; but I begged him that he wouldn't say anything about it till he come back from his next journey on the river. [11]
It was Ricky Wharton over on the Muskwat River. [11]
Four years at West Point, and plenty of books and schooling, will learn a man a good deal, I reckon, but it won't learn him the river. [5]
But the streams were full of trout then, and the moose and the elk left their broad tracks on the sands of the river. [4]

Short sentences using river

Those blasted river thieves! [5]
They've broke for the river! [5]
The jail before the river! [11]
The river was roarin'. [9]
One suggested Toe River. [4]
The River was opened again. [9]
Green River is navigable. [7]
Assabet River, 70, 71. [6]
Musketaquid River, 22, 70, 71. [6]
Open the river! [9]

Sentences containing river two or more times

They had been warned that the river Indians were as ferocious and pitiless as the river demon, and destroyed all comers without waiting for provocation; but no matter, Joliet and Marquette struck into the country to hunt up the proprietors of the tracks. [5]
The expedition went up the river to a village called Patowomek, and thence rowed up a little River Quiyough (Acquia Creek? [4]
It was difficult to say, meantime, whether the road was laid out in the river, or the river in the road. [4]
My object was to cross the river softly, skirt the Levis shore, pass the Isle of Orleans, and so steal down the river. [11]
And they called this river 'La Belle Riviere,'--the Beautiful River. [9]
The distance to the Warm Springs is thirty-seven miles; to Marshall, more than halfway, the road is clear, as it runs on the opposite side of the river from the railway, and the valley is something more than river and rails. [4]
In those times, the principal saloons were always populous with river men; given fifty players present, thirty or thirty-five were likely to be from the river. [5]
He passed by the Patowomek River and hasted to the River Bolus, which he had before visited. [4]
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]
For sixty years, the foreign tourist has steamed up and down the river between St. Louis and New Orleans, and then gone home and written his book, believing he had seen all of the river that was worth seeing or that had anything to see. [5]

More example sentences with the word river in them

Yes, I told you--the whole quarter beyond the river, and so it is. [2]
I wish that your countrymen, who are coming down the river like driftwood, more resembled you. [9]
Didn't I tell you that a man's got to know the river in the night the same as he'd know his own front hall? [5]
When I leave you I step into a pirogue which is tied to the river bank. [9]
There's a place you could hide by the river where no one could ever find you," she said, and left the room. [11]
There would be yet a half-hour's sun and then a short twilight, and the river and the woods and the Rest of the Flax-beaters would be her own; and she could think of the wonderful thing come upon her. [11]
The vineyard, the yellow stubble; and the river rushing on and on with tranquil power, and the slow panting of the steamboat. [9]
The more Clemens wrote about the river the more he wished to revisit it and take Howells with him. [5]
And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep. [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]
Probably the coat worked loose in crossing Toe River and the pocket-book had gone down-stream. [4]
He always had work, he never saved a penny, he was a most persuasive borrower, he was in debt to every pilot on the river, and to the majority of the captains. [5]
You've heard the words of the song--the river drivers sing it: "'What is there like to the cry of the bird That sings in its nest in the lilac tree? [11]
I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too. [5]
Brydon saw a woman standing at a window of the House waving her arms, and there floated up the river the words, "Father! [11]
They did so with those they took from a boat that was aground in the Tennessee River a few days ago. [7]
Powhatan was displeased with their importunity to go further up the river, and departed with all the Indians, except the friendly Navirans, who had accompanied them from Arahatic. [4]
Rosy-fingered morn touched with magic colour the masts and scattered sails of the ships upon the great river, and spires and towers quivered with rainbow light. [11]
Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
Occasionally he would wish to be in it all again, out in the wild woods and on the river and in the shanty, free and strong and friendly and a bit ferocious. [11]
I commanded my wine at the Coffee House with the best of the bucks, and was made a member of the South River and Jockey clubs. [9]
Think of her wild fancy as we may, she felt as if that dusky woman of her midnight vision on the river were breathing for one hour through her lips. [6]
It was a wild and rocky upland where our great pasture was, many miles from home, the road to it running by a brawling river, and up a dashing brook-side among great hills. [4]
Marchand spoiled his wife-run away with her up along the Wind River, eh? [11]
But the maiden whom your fury would cast into the abyss of the river is under the merciful protection of the supreme Church, for the death of her body will bring death to your souls. [10]
An old planter, who has lived on the river since 1844, said there never was such a rise, and he was satisfied more than one quarter of the stock has been lost. [5]
And all the while the river flowing through the endless prairies, high-banked, ennobled by living woods, lipped with green, kept surging in her ears, inviting her, alluring her--alluring her with a force too deep and powerful for weak human nature to bear for long. [11]
Do you know where the Boat Club is on the River Boulevard? [9]
On Morgan's command, where it is now sent, as I understand, depends the question whether the enemy will get to the Ohio River in another place. [7]
I knew well where I was, and at once started off in a northwesterly direction, toward the St. Charles River, making for a certain farmhouse above the town. [11]
To the right, where a river empties in, were scattered groups of queer, rakish craft, each with four slanting pipes and a tiny flag floating from her halyards; a flag--as the binoculars revealed--of crimson bars and stars on a field of blue. [9]
But say, Paaker, what devil of amiability took possession of you down by the river, that you let the rascal escape unpunished. [10]
Three of them were washing clothes in the river under the window when I arrived, and they continued at it as long as there was light to work by. [5]
These, no doubt, were to ride round the morass, and ford the river at a favorable spot so as to attack the vessel from the west, while the others tried to reach it from the east with the aid of the palm-trunks. [10]
And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... [2]
Warm, still days were interspersed between the windy ones, when the sky was turquoise blue, when the very river banks were steeped in new colours, when the distant, shadowy mountains became real. [9]
One night Florian--there were Florian and Octave and Felix and Isidore and Emile --the eldest, drew Medallion aside from the others, and they walked together by the river. [11]
And the birds!--they were everywhere; they swept back and forth across the river constantly, and their jubilant music was never stilled. [5]
Some forty Uhlans were drowned in the river, though boats were sent to their assistance. [2]
He and Anne went for a walk along the river, the surface of which was broken by lumps of yellow ice. [9]
So the four went beyond the power of gold and gewgaw, and were dragged in the mire around the walls and flung into the yellow waters of the river. [9]
We were then well down under the precipice, but still considerably above the level of the river. [5]
They were likewise welcome because all pilots are tireless talkers, when gathered together, and as they talk only about the river they are always understood and are always interesting. [5]
In the first week of July the decisive battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of war, and the fall of Vicksburg made the great river free from its source to the Gulf. [7]
The next moment we were walking along in our village; and down toward the river I saw the twinkling lights of the Golden Stag. [5]
So long as we were on the Nile, I would not intrude my tale upon you; that ancient river has a wonderful power of compelling to silence and quiet contemplation. [10]
The next instant we were away down the river, clawing with might and main to keep out of the woods. [5]
So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden. [2]
From the time we left the tavern to wander by the river I managed to be a good deal alone with Mrs. Falchion. [11]
This was after we had ferried the Rockcastle River. [9]
The next day we crossed a ferry on the Ashley River, and rode down the sand of Charlestown neck. [9]
At French River we change horses. [4]
And at length we came to Hans's farm, in a prettily rolling country on the Broad River. [9]
There's only one way to be a pilot, and that is to get this entire river by heart. [5]
They went by way of the Great Lakes; and from Green Bay, in canoes, by way of Fox River and the Wisconsin. [5]
At all the watery margins they have been present; not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks. [7]
The great steamer was whistling down the middle of the river at her own sweet will! [5]
It was--yes, it was Virginie Poucette--the kind and beautiful Virginie--for her goodness had made him remember her as beautiful, though indeed she was but comely, like this woman who stayed him as he walked by the river. [11]
My next thought was to find Mr. Mason, but he was gone up the river to visit a sick parishioner. [9]
She knew he was thinking what all the North knew, that she was the first person to take the Dog Nose Rapids in a canoe, down the great river scarce a stone's-throw from her door; and that she had done it in safety many times. [11]
And then there was the dairy, with the fawn-coloured cows and calves; and the hillside pastures that ran down to the river, and the farm lands where the stubbled grain was yellowing. [9]
But the storm was so thick they could not see the ship's length out into the river. [9]
What peace there was sitting once again under the rustling trees on the lawn with the green river and the blue bay spread out before us, and Scipio standing by with my grandfather's punch. [9]
When Abraham Lincoln was running for the Legislature the first time, on the platform of the improvement of the navigation of the Sangamon River, he went to secure the votes of thirty men who were cradling a wheat field. [4]
That afternoon Marie was riding across the Winter Valley to her father's plantation at the Pascal River. [11]
When Toe River was reached, there was a choice of routes. [4]
Beaver Dam Rock was out in the middle of the river now, and throwing a prodigious 'break;' it used to be close to the shore, and boats went down outside of it. [5]
The river packet was leaving in a few hours for Muscatine, Iowa, where his mother and his two brothers were now located. [5]
Such a tumult was generally odious to her retiring nature; but to-night she felt herself merely one drop in the great, flowing river, of which every other drop felt the same impulse which was carrying her forward to her destination. [10]
The little river was full now, and ice had formed on it, with small openings here and there, where the dark water, hurrying along as if in fear of arrest, had a more chilling aspect than the icy cover. [4]
But the river was flowing through the flume: she could hear the mill-wheel turning--she could hear the mill-wheel turning! [11]
Being Tom Sawyer was easy and comfortable, and it stayed easy and comfortable till by and by I hear a steamboat coughing along down the river. [5]
A young man was drowned not very long ago in the river running under our windows. [6]
I wish I was back there piloting up and down the river again. [5]
The big mate was at the wheel, and he had the old tub pointed at a star and was holding her straight up the middle of the river. [5]
He knew he was at the mouth of the James River, "where our Englishmen are," as he says. [4]
And here it was at last, in a city west of the Mississippi River. [9]
While my mother was asleep the lunatic succeeded in eluding this man's vigilance and plunged into the river. [10]
He says: "I was a-listenin' to all de talk, en I slips into de river en was gwyne to shove for sho' if dey come aboard. [5]
And this letter was addressed: "To the River of Egypt. [10]
The lower river was about bank-full, and if anybody had questioned my ability to run any crossing between Cairo and New Orleans without help or instruction, I should have felt irreparably hurt. [5]
Of course, there was a tumult on board, and my mother heard cries of "Fallen into the river! [10]
That night a warm heavy rain came on, and in the morning every stream and river was swollen to twice its size. [11]
It's little they wanted to fire at us, I know, when we were crossin' the river, but it had to be done, you see, and us within sight. [11]
Said he would wait for us in a little bunch of sycamores right back of Tom's uncle Silas's tobacker field on the river road, a lonesome place. [5]
Then the widow waded out to a bare rock in the river, and everybody went away but her sons and other relations. [5]
Let the new volunteer forces be brought forward as fast as possible, and especially into the camps on the two sides of the river here. [7]
Some old forgotten volcanic eruption sent its broad river of fire down the mountain side here, and it poured down in a great torrent from an overhanging bluff some fifty feet high to the ground below. [5]
Last night the Voice said that he waits for me where the mist rises from the river at daybreak, close to the home of the White Swan. [11]
The only lights visible were in the low houses lining the banks of the river. [11]
When such a vessel appeared there was sure to arise great dispute about it, and from time to time expeditions were organized to ascend the river and discover the place and circumstances of its origin. [4]
The river was very wide, and was walled with solid timber on both sides; you couldn't see a break in it hardly ever, or a light. [5]
Necessarily, then, these various clusters of whites must have heard of the great river of the far west; and indeed, they did hear of it vaguely,--so vaguely and indefinitely, that its course, proportions, and locality were hardly even guessable. [5]
The Red River Valley, the Saskatchewan Valley, and British Columbia, are now belted by a great railway, and given to the plough; but in the far north life is much the same as it was a hundred years ago. [11]
Slightly picturesque this valley is with its winding river and high hills guarding it, and perhaps a person would enjoy a foot-tramp down it; but, I think he would find little peculiar or interesting after he left the neighborhood of the Basin of Minas. [4]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of the river, and not show a light till we got a long ways below the town. [5]
The Mukaukas' barge, urged forward by powerful rowers, made its way smoothly down the river. [10]
You are lifted up, canoe and all, and you rush on down rapids, over falls, on the Kimash River in the air. [11]

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