19 Verbs to Use for the Word waterway

Quaint old-time Sarah and her sister ships could not have sailed up this waterway very far before finding navigation difficult.

FERMANAGH (74), an Irish county in the SW. corner of Ulster, of a hilly surface, especially in the W.; is well wooded, and produces indifferent crops of oats, flax, and potatoes; some coal and iron, and quantities of limestone, are found in it; the Upper and Lower Loughs Erne form a waterway through its centre; chief town, Enniskillen.

The Rhine constituted the great central waterway of medieval Europe; the Flemish towns were its ports and its manufacturing centers.

Just before entering the waterway of noble chenars, known as the Chenar Bagh (a camping-ground reserved for bachelors only), we ported our helm (or at least would have done so had there been any rudders in Kashmir), and pushed through the lock-gate, which gives entrance to the Dal Lake, against a brisk current.

" The old water-course led back into high ground through a cañon, and there were unmistakable signs that the pirates had followed the waterway.

After a while the pale-faces took to a new way of getting themselves and their belongings over the country; they went rolling about on rails instead of floating on the water; and before long, they almost forgot the old waterways.

" He pondered, gazing up the dim waterway, and by-and-by broke into a chuckle.

He had left care behind him in Mr. Hucks's yard, and so much of noble melancholy as he kept (for the sake of artistic effect) took a tincture from the sunset bronzing the smoke-laden sky and gilding the unlovely waterway.

It is only a day's journey from the seaport of the ocean steamers, having waterway all the year round and a good beach front.

At ten o'clock Sam harnessed up again, and shortly before noon our travellers left the waterway by which they had travelled hitherto, and passed out to the right through a cut, less than a quarter of a mile long, where a rising lock took them into the Stratford-on-Avon Canal.

Northward from Victoria, the rugged shores that line those inland waterways began to appear blurred.

Arrived at a rocky knoll which looked up both waterways, the three men halted to take a last glance at the Great Cañon, the scene of a pilgrimage that had been a poem, though a terrible one.

"I don't know who they are, nor why they should be our enemies, but you know several nations are jealous of Uncle Sam, that he possesses such a vitally strategic waterway as the Panama Canal.

Who projected the vast waterway from Chicago to the Gulf?

That the danger had been real enough the deserted river proved; terror of these same revolutionaries had swept the usually busy waterway clean of craft, and nothing further disturbed the quiet but the hoarse honk of wild geese and the whirring of ducks' wings.

And so for a long week the little party toiled up the great waterway, keeping ever to the southern bank, where there were fewer clearings.

a good portion of the old, crowded, picturesque town has given place to more spacious streets and dwellings; the old ramparts have been converted into handsome boulevards; has several Gothic churches unrivalled in beauty, a cathedral (the seat of an archbishop), &c.; the river affords an excellent waterway to the sea, and as a port Rouen ranks fourth in France; is famed for its cotton and other textiles; Joan of Arc was burned here in 1431.

The orders were to prevent any passage over the bridge and under the bridge particularly the latter, as the authorities suspected an attempt upon the part of enemy plotters to use the waterways in and out of Paris.

As Gadabout sturdily headed her stubby bow up the wide, majestic waterway, we looked about us.

19 Verbs to Use for the Word  waterway