12 collocations for rivers

Pater, That giv'st us wine instead of water; And from the pond and river clear Mak'st nappy ale and good March beer; That send'st us sundry sorts of meat,

Far up the wide, shining river a great, heavy-laden barge was gliding swiftly down.

The sea had no limits; the rivers no beds nor banks; the earth no solidity; for according to an author of the third century of our era, there was not, in the whole of the immense plain, a spot of ground that did not yield under the footsteps of man.Eumenius.

The Jalofs and Foulahs inhabit the country between the Senegal and Gambia, on which latter river the Feloops reside.

Soon, unmolested, he sped on once more; but as they crossed the busy river all his light-heartedness seemed suddenly to desert him; the questions he had been vainly asking himself earlier that day were reiterated in his brain.

But not to me belongeth such a grace, And, were it mine, 'tis not in amorous shade To river music that such song is made: The song that moves the battle on awoke To the stern rhythm of the swordsman's stroke, The song that fans the city's weary face Sprang not afar from out some leafy place, But bubbled spring-like in its dingiest lane From out a heart that shared the city's pain;

De sky belong ter us ez much as to de rich folks, an' de grass an' de trees an' de birds an' de flowers; de rollin rivers an' de mighty ocean belongs ter us.

These were mostly merchants, farmers, artisans, millers, and backwoodsmen, the pioneers, who, with their Dutch neighbors, blazed the trail of civilization through that section, rolled back the savage redman, and marked along the banks of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers the sites of future towns and cities.

I shrunk; for verily the barrier flood 5 Was like a lake, or river bright and fair, A span of waters; yet what power is there!

This river the Spaniards named Rio Negro.

The swift, broken water surged into high waves, and roared through the piles of driftwood that covered the points of the small islands, round which the currents ran in every direction; and those among the men who were unused to river-work were much relieved when they found themselves in safety.

" "A wasted life, Mr. Fenton; and in the meantime that river down yonder may hide the only secret.

12 collocations for  rivers