The wadis became roaring, tearing torrents fed by hundreds of tributaries, and men who had sought shelter on the lee side of rocks often found water pouring over them in cascades.

Rising abrupt beyond it were the broken, precipitous cliffs of granite such as beetle above the mountain tributaries of the American.

The channel receiving several tributaries, here becomes a succession of fine open pools of water from eighty to 150 yards in width.

Skirting the ranges for some distance, several tributaries joined from the southward.

The total amount of land available for this purpose within the limit of our route I should estimate at not less than two or three millions of acres, and of this I may safely say 200,000 are suitable for agricultural purposes, the greater portion of which lies on the two flanks of the Hamersley Range, on the banks of the DeGrey and its tributaries, and on the Lower Sherlock.

In selecting a westerly route I was also influenced by the greater elevation of the country on the western side of the Victoria, and the fact that all the larger tributaries join from that side of the valley.

The valley now turned to the east and east-north-east; some small tributaries joined the creek from the south-east, the sandstone cliffs disappeared, and the outline of the hills became rounded and rose about 300 feet above the creek.

"The beds in question have been laid out in a small artificial lake fed by a tiny streamlet which forms one of the numerous tributaries of the River Cray.

Croesus continued the warfare on the Greek cities of Asia, and forced them to become his tributaries.

It was not the height of the falls, but the immense body of water, which comprehends, with constant accumulations from the tributaries on the way, the overflowings of Lakes Erie, Superior, Michigan, and Huron.

Then, without waiting longer for her relative, without reflecting upon what she did, she had walked tremblingly back to the Cedars, checked by tributaries of the torrent at every street corner....

And theise kynges han kynges undre hem; and alle ben tributaries to Prestre John.

But before doing so we must beg our reader to accompany us beyond the civilized portions of the United States of Americabeyond the frontier settlements of the "far west," into those wild prairies which are watered by the great Missouri Riverthe Father of Watersand his numerous tributaries.

There is a romantic and exquisitely beautiful spot on the banks of one of the tributaries above referred tolong stretch of mingled woodland and meadow, with a magnificent lake lying like a gem in its green bosomwhich goes by the name of the Mustang Valley.

In fine, the word is applied to all persons doing service for othersto magistrates, to all governmental officers, to tributaries, to all the subjects of governments, to younger sonsdefining their relation to the first born, who is called Lord and rulerto prophets, to kings, to the Messiah, and in respectful addresses not less than fifty times in the Old Testament.

All the Strangers that dwelt in the land were tributaries, required to pay an annual tax to the government, either in money, or in public service, (called a "tribute of land-service;") in other words, all the Strangers were national servants to the Israelites, and the same Hebrew word used to designate individual servants, equally designates national servants or tributaries.

All the Strangers that dwelt in the land were tributaries, required to pay an annual tax to the government, either in money, or in public service, (called a "tribute of land-service;") in other words, all the Strangers were national servants to the Israelites, and the same Hebrew word used to designate individual servants, equally designates national servants or tributaries.

The service of those Strangers who were national servants or tributaries, was regulated upon the same benevolent principle, and secured to them TWO-THIRDS of the whole year.

All had the choice of these alternatives, either free egress out of the land;[E] or acquiescence in the decree, with life and residence as tributaries, under the protection of the government; or resistance to the execution of the decree, with death.

The fulfilment of this prediction, seems to have commenced in the subjection of the Canaanites to the Israelites as tributaries.

To designate tributaries about twenty-five times.

44, is used to point out persons rendering service for others, totally irrespective of the principle on which that service was rendered; as is manifest from the fact that it is applied indiscriminately to tributaries, to domestics, to all the subjects of governments, to magistrates, to all governmental officers, to younger sonsdefining their relation to the first born, who is called lord and rulerto prophets, to kings, and to the Messiah.

It is used in the Old Testament to describe the serving of tributaries, of worshippers, of domestics, of Levites, of sons to a father, of younger brothers to the elder, of subjects to a ruler, of hirelings, of soldiers, of public officers to the government, of a host to his guests, &c.

Of these it is used to describe the serving of worshippers more than forty times, of tributaries, about thirty five, and of servants or domestics, about ten.

Their national servants or tributaries, are spoken of frequently, but domestics servants so rarely, that no necessity existed, even if they were slaves, for coining a new word.