a river

A dam placed across a river or canal to raise or divert the water, As for a millrace, or to regulate or measure the flow.

Grain agriculture was possible only in a few places where a river like the Nile could be harnessed.

A boss got six months in prison because one of his workers accidentally broke a pipe, causing oil to spill into a river.

They had no sooner broken through the enemy's defence works than they found a river in front of them.

It was one way to tune out the voices that babbled like the gush of a river inside my head.

They just enjoy sitting along the beach or on the bank of a river all day.

The point-polluting may spread to the lower reaches of a river with the scour of the stormwater.

The Master was strolling with some of his disciples along the bank of a river.

So, in her opinion, someone, the place is a river's lake, whether celestial or to earth.

the food that had been laid out for the dead is thrown into a river or into the sea as it is considered unlucky for anyone living to eat it.

Feelings of gladness and sadness continued to run through me in discrete layers, like currents in a river.

Julia felt a whirl of wind blow her hair up and swish in her face. It was like a canoe going against the rapids in a river.

The eruption from the fissure was not the only news, as a river nearby began boiling from the heat of the Earth.

Having been exhausted by the journey, Mary sat down by the side of a river.

There were two pots on the bank of a river. One was made of brass, and the other was made of clay.

We found a tranquil spot on the bank of a river to have a rest.

He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu government.

A river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass.

Small squirrels and bears in the giant pandas still camera happily, there is a river fish E, and a frog ready to jump in the water .

What should you do if you get hungry or need drinking water? You would have to leave your little house to look for a river.

It was more like the bend of a river than a bath.

He was by a river in East Africa, facing the camera and up close to it, squatting down, getting ready to take a photograph of something.

A bull can walk into a river, get attacked by piranha s , and a few minutes later only its skeleton will be bobbing in the water.

Emotions are like a river. Their power can be dammed up and released under control and direction, but it cannot be held forever in check.

And the serpent cast water as a river out of his mouth after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away by its current.

The bone of contention is often a river, such as the Cauvery, whose waters must be shared by several states.

Such museums are opened in Cancun, in Grenada Islands, in Lesser Antilles Islands but also on the bottom of a river in London .

If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Alas, it was not to be, for the mighty king was killed and the ring sank to the bottom of a river.

Close to the California line, where the group stopped to bathe in a river, Noah, feeling he was a hindrance to the others, wandered away.

Gossip girl: Some say love is a river. Some say love's a silly song. Some say love is all around us. It lifts us up where we belong.

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

My dreams are to own a home near a river and go on an endless trip around the world, while being secure with a regular income.

I only remember that the whole floor seemed to be rocking and I felt as though I were floating on a river.

Once upon a time, a man from the state of Chu was going to cross a river. In the boat, his sword fell into the water.

"small drop asked : " We really have so much power? can be turned into a stream, into a river into the sea?

His wife said to him, "cry me a river" when he complained about his job constantly.

Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.

How much is the ecological water demand and water consumption for different regions within a river basin?

Then he looked just beyond the cradle and there was a mother's love pouring out like the gush of a river toward the cradle and baby.

I deeply love my country, there is no land for me a deep feeling and excitement, there is no a river let me meditation and downs.

A man from the state of Chu was crossing a river. In the boat, his sword fell into the water. Immediately he made a mark on the boat.

Like water flowing over a dam into a river, current surges through the bird (or person's) body on its way into the ground.

A computer modeling study shows the event might have taken place where a river joined a coastal lagoon along the Mediterranean Sea.

This year, he said, his residence by a river pier wasn't badly flooded, thanks to higher embankments built by the city over the years.

The state of mind can be altered, depending upon what people do with what they have, to be like a mountain, like a river or like a feather?

A Woodman was felling a tree on the bank of a river, when his axe, glancing off the trunk, flew out of his hands and fell into the water.

So she made her way back to Bangladesh, burying her baby's body on the bank of a river.

And he showed me a pure[ a] river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

The total land area that contributes surface runoff to a river or lake is called a watershed, fiver basin, or catchment area.

And, of course, there was "Bathers by a River" and "The Moroccans" , which Matisse considered "among the most pivotal works" of his career.

It is said that he drowned when he fell into a river while trying to take hold of the reflection of the moon.

Game Controls: Left mouse control, vehicle waiting for the right time to launch into a river of fast movement on the side of it.

At last the bus stopped. Tony could see a river and an old bridge. A small road ran across the bridge, through the field and over a hill.

"I must be on a bridge. I" ve been told that there's a river nearby, but I'm not familiar with its exact position.

Once there was an old man. He lived by a river. He went out to catch fish every morning.

An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.

The ice was very wide and thick. It began to move down the mountain. It was like a river of ice. It was a glacier.

In southeastern Fujian province, the Zijin Mining Group delayed reporting a June 3 leak of waste into a river for more than a week.

If you throw a handful of straw into a river, some of it stays afloat even in a rapids.

The woman allegedly claimed she had thrown the severed member of her drug-addicted Taiwanese husband into a river before turning herself in.

On his way home, he has to carry his goods across a river by boat. The skiff will hold only the man and one purchase at a time, however.

There's a river in your eyes and I'm swept away Breaking inside out, promising to stay Together again, a lifetime stranded apart Save me!

A warm breath and a rub on her pants later, a small black pebble, oval like a river rock, charred and smooth, was freed of ice.

Grain agriculture was only possible in a few places where a river, like the Nile, could be harnessed.

There is the United States, where there is at the center of a river, the river around the house a lot, like water Venice Italy.

In April four people drowned after Turkish police allegedly pushed a group of refugees into a river and made them swim back towards Iraq.

This image shows a crane flying over a river delta and was an example of the larger landscapes the designers wanted to traverse.

He felt his whole life turned like a river, suddenly reversing the direction of its flow, suddenly running up hill.

Socrates said nothing but took him along to a river. He suddenly pushed him into the river forcibly .

It was a beautiful place with a river running through the town and three strange mountains that stood sixty or seventy miles behind it.

Lin is part of her mother's name and Ping is a river in Chiang Mai.

Mid-morning, they notice a woman along the side of the road struggling to cross a river.

When night falls, the devil's breath when all over the land, like a river flowing east.

Your life is like a river. That you're aiming for a goal that isn't your destiny, you'll always gonna be swimming against the current.

You would have to leave your little branch house to look for a river.

Time flows like a river and it seems as if each of us is carried relentlessly along by time's current.

If you know the general layout of the city, you can walk until you reach a river, park or major avenue.

But since over 60% of the world's population lives in a river basin shared by two or more countries, the scope for squabbles is plain.

the vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

The rainwater converged into a river. Struggling with all my might, I climbed to a petal boat.

People like to think of time in terms of day and night. For me, I prefer to imagine it as a river of no return.

And a river went forth from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches.

All the other animals gathered at the bank of a river, and the race began.

He would set his traps by a river and then wait for hours, resting with a book in the shade of a tree.

Be thou as a flame of fire to My enemies and a river of life eternal to My loved ones, and be not of those who doubt.

When the tears into a river when I do not know which corner will be my home.

David Liu, an executive at AOL, calls it replacing the in-box with 'a river that continues to flow as you dip into it. '

Like the lady who pulled that little puppy out of a river last month.

Night fell, and after walking a few more miles down country roads, They finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river.

Night fell, and after walking a few more miles down country roads, They finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river.

Ra Goel : Taken at dawn on a frosty morning as the sun was rising over a river in the small hamlet of Stedorf in north Germany.

You should have to leave your little branch house to look for a river.

He hones his skill like a fisherman, learning to cast his net "into a river of dreams and catch a splendid array of words. "

To filter water from a river, a well may be dug close to the bank.

Steven: Umm. . . you know, this "My Mother Cries a River" might not be that bad after all.

I turned the moment, I think I almost hearts of sorrow into a river upstream.

Fluidity between two natural nodes of a river system can be seen as a key indicator for estimating the vital signs of the whole system.

Several kilometers of my journey home are alongside the Lanxi River. I always sit on the side with a river view.

In the darker original, the piper leads the children to a river where they all drown (except a lame boy who couldn't keep up).

The invention relates to a method for measuring the unit width discharge of a vertical line position in a river and the river discharge.

Five months later, 14 students died when a three-wheel farm truck being used as a school bus tumbled into a river in Hunan Province.

Time is a river , of which memory is the water, what I scoop up from the river is all yearing of you .

A drainage basin is the area where these tributaries collect rainwater. A river with all its tributaries is called a river system.

Over here you will notice what seems to be a river, but the satellite findings indicate it is polluted and the water is unfit to drink.

Now I am going to tell you about a scorpion. This scorpion wanted to cross a river, so he asked the frog to carry him.

Six South Koreans were killed when the North opened the gates to a dam near the border, flooding the banks of a river shared by both sides.

It's magic water. One drop can turn into a river. I'm going to have lots of fish for ever and ever.

Meditation is a continuous flow of perception or thought, like the flow of water in a river.

Slowly, small ditch into a river (which is now west of the river), the river for west bank brought the grain and multiply it.

Even worse is when it finds its way into our natural environment -- on the side of the road or next to a river.

On his way home there is a river and there is a bridge over it.

He followed her, and took her to a river side. They sat silently.

'Oh, its all very well to TALK, ' said the Mole, rather pettishly, he being new to a river and riverside life and its ways.

You follow a drop of your own sweat and plummet with it becoming a river, a flash flood, a waterspout, a hurricane.

In summer, the weather is very hot. It often rains. The plants grow fast. The children can swim freely in a pool or in a river.

The delta, and the existence of a channel etched into the crater wall, suggest that a river once flowed into a standing body of water.

This causes the dense water from the Mediterranean to flow like a river along the sea bed, carving a channel and deep banks.

Plato said: time like a river, is unable to forget left, right is worth grasp among youth, swift flow, is the sad young faint.

There is a river fishing in the elderly, a child came to see him fishing, skilled people, so not long to catch up on a crate full of fish.

Wuhan is not the fixed existence, it looks like a river that can flows forever and can maintains its own characteristic in the change.

If a sheep should slip into a river or stream its wool would soon soak up the water and become completely saturated.

How can they say that when the working people's blood has been made to flow like a river for a hundred years?

Blocking a river with a dam blocks the movement both of fish upstream to spawn and of silt downstream to fertilise fields.

Wild creatures [like these sandpipers ] find refuge all along the Altamaha, taking comfort in a river left to its free-flowing ways.

To die of hanging at the bottom of a river! --the idea seemed to him ludicrous.

CHISHUI hopes that its history as a river crossing site during the Long March will attract red tourists .

A damaged house floats in a river in Kesennuma, Japan, days after the area was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami.

One day, when a seamstress was sewing while sitting close to a river, her thimble fell into the river.

Memory, like a river, each starting from a stirring waves are the best moments is the sum of life's most precious asset.

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters .

The performer's fingers are as gentle as a bird's wings. The tea is poured from the pot just as a river runs down a lofty mountain.

You'll notice that this railway runs roughly parallel to a river.

Now, I think that hes found himself in a river thats flooded and headed south and hes got a little boat with no oars.

When an elephant walks along the bottom of a river (it can't swim), the tip of the trunk is held above the water.

If you mom and I fall into a river and you can only save one, who will you save?

Only a river boat, the boat is too small to install under the farmer and his thing.

Perhaps this is not always true, but it is true that many of the world's greatest cities have been built on the banks of a river.

Someone called to tell the police that a headless female body had been found floating on a river.

At the end of the festival, the branches are thrown into a river, thus taking bad luck away.

Improvement works to a river which discharges into a coastal protection area.

A river port and a bus terminal are joint together in one building built in a shape of a ship.

My car is now sleeping at a river bottom near the Friendship Bridge in the south of the city.

As you can see there is a highway beneath us, which surprising sounds a lot like a river, with the occasional horns and sirens now and then.

On their way along the river into the desert before starting it to the provisional name of a "river. "

That incident followed a major chemical spill into a river in southern China by a copper plant hit by flooding.

riverain Pertaining to a river bank or the general vicinity of a river.

On wet nights eels have been known to cross land from a pond to a river by the thousands, using each other's moist bodies as a bridge.

Trust us, he was talking about a river, not a dictator: no self-respecting prophet would make such an egregious spelling error.

Who's able to cry me a river of'good-bye'.

The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass sway a noise like a great thunder in rain.

It was like a canoe going against the rapids in a river.

When he complained about his boss, I responded to him, " cry me a river. "

If I can't help falling in love with you Like a river flows . Surely to the sea .

It was beautifully located on a river - but with all the thai villas 5 meters from a very very busy main street leading to the airport.

In Tibet in 2011, a young girl was on her way home with a pail of water from a river.

Andy Durfresne , who crawled through a river of shit and come out on the other side .

the gladsome current of our youth, ere passion yet disorders, steals lingering like a river smooth, along its grassy borders.

Life in Color: Green A bird's-eye view captures the serpentine course of a river in Peru's mountainous Chachapoya region.

Qualitatively similar results were obtained by Ahmad (1953b)in a model study of a river barrage or weir.

Once upon a time there was a river here.

And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.

One of Sichuan's worrisome "quake lakes" , formed when landslides block a river, is also near the aftershock's epicentre in Hongguang.

Like a river seeking the easiest path to the sea, immigration that once flowed to Spain and Italy now courses to Greece.

Opportunist: A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.

My hometown and the hundred good cousin home belonging to two different counties, but the location is only separated by a river.

fall away and down to I saw that the ground fell away and down to a river, far below me.

And Dragon Boat Festival is for Qu Yuan. He is an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.

It flows down the sea shelf and out into the abyssal plain much like a river on land.

We saw so many beautiful things: a glacier that flowed like a river of ice through a valley that cut the mountains into two parts.

but I never lost the good side of the city, until I hitched a ride on a river boat queen.

We stop for light relief at Sigulda, a spot noted for being one of the few in Latvia to boast rolling hills, a river and beautiful scenery.

We have too many tax 1000, donated one we do not too few, small at first could evolve into a river, drip of love is great!

Like many small streams, rivulets that make the tremendous volume of a river, what are the small streams that bring about fear?

Many centuries ago, in a certain village near a river in India, all the men were trained as Carpenters.

Individual sand bodies, filling erosional features cut by a river, may be elongate or arcuate depending on the course of the river.

One day a long time ago, a great thinker was walking along beside a river with one of his students.

On the bank of a river lived a wise old man.

The water we use in our houses goes through the sewer and a treatment facility and back into a river or the ground where it can be re-used.

This regatta commemorates the death of Qu Yuan , an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.

Outside his house the day before, with mountains and a river as a backdrop, he had hinted that the past year has been very difficult.

Behind the station lay a river, its surface glittering with a snowy brilliance, winding away to become lost among the leaden fields.

There once was a river clam who climbed up out of the water to sum himself on the shore.

However, who stood on the years of a river gently, "lost time is never round the clock. "

Your face was a river full of happiness, treacle, maze, pain and comfort, in that amazing summer I fell into it and could not get out.

They drove down a hill and into a wide, trodden road by a meadow near a river.

Others were shot and then tossed into a river or burned in a barrel, officials said.

Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.

As Foshan expands and repositions itself, it will evolve from a city near a river to a city with a river at its heart.

Whether you prefer swimming in a pool, a river, or the sea, getting into the water can be a fun and relaxing way to cool off.

At least 2 tons of dead fish recently appeared in a river basin in southern France's Perpignan.

Youth is a River Runs chain and choppy, with a reef and is afraid of the squally showers .

They down a green plan, leaping, laughing, they run And wash in a river, and shine in the sun.

There were two pots on the bank of a river.

An extremely fast-moving part of a river, caused by a steep descent in the riverbed. Often used in the plural.

An accident sends the cab careering off a bridge and into a river, from which the driver pulls you out before vanishing.

a part of Tolo Harbour , but reclamation transformed it into a river channel .

Down through the valley they went, across a river and into a forest full of trees.

And so it happens that on the first day, in the dark, we have to cross a river where the bridge washed away.

During the Civil War, she married a river pilot named Charles Dake, perhaps to escape the dangers of life as an espionage agent.

A 29-year-old mother told police she suffocated her two young sons before strapping them into their car seats and driving them into a river.

Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

When its technocrats decide to dam a river, build a road or move a village, the dam goes up, the road goes down and the village disappears.

There is a river flowing through my hometown. I used to swim in this river, and it was also in this river that I learnt swimming.

Like a river to the sea, I will always be with you.

Grand Rapids has a river running through the edge of downtown with a pedestrian bridge that most days is really quite dead.

There was also a river running into the lake, not far from the saw mill.

He pulled a would-be suicide out of a river.

Li quickly ran to the side, jumped into a river.

In addition, in the long river of life, time is not always as a river springs.

In general, the sandstone body have been deposited by a river, possibly a distributary flowing on a coastal plain.

Never , and never make you to cry me a river .

I uphold a natural simple life, singing cheerfully like a river running eastward and dancing elegantly like a cloud floating around.

And here is actually the spinal column and the whole torso encased in a sandstone block , because she was buried by a river .

And now you say you're sorry for being so untrue. Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river. I cried a river over you.

Through the years my love will grow. Like a river; it will flow. It cant die because Im so devoted to you.

One day he saw an old woman grinding an iron rod on a big stone when he was playing by a river.

Qu later drowned himself in a river.

This morning while I was walking along the bank of a river.

John was very lucky to have latched onto the office with a river view.

He stops by a river and takes out his fishing rod.

If comparing technological innovation as a river, the original technological innovation will be the source of this river.

I saw that the ground fell away and down to a river, far below me.

There was a river at the foot of the mountains. A young boy named Christopher loved to go to sit in the warmth of the happy sunlight.

In 1987 I heard of a story about a boy that fell through ice and was trapped under a river.

When a river valley is dammed up, the waters contained by the barrage rise to form an artificial lake.

She was discovered by a reindeer herder on a river bank in northwestern Siberia.

to live in a tent: We walked all day and camped by a river at night.

We really enjoy our new apartment that look out on a river.

There's no sign of ice, just a river roiling with silt-laden melt.

And it's probably no coincidence that it was found by a river, in a rock shelter at Montastruc in central France.

An arm of the sea that extends inland to meet the mouth of a river.

At last she was quite breathless and cried to her father, a river god, for help.

Every Easter, our family goes camping with friends on a remote stretch of a river in Victoria, Australia.

What fun it is to jump into a pool or go swimming in a river in summer!

Time is a river, of which memory is the water. Oh my friend, what I scoop up from the river is all yearning of you.

"Is there a river near here ? " he asked his mother on the first day .

In nowadays, many objects come into a river and have complex relations from each other, extensive reading help us understand it better.

Some two thousand years ago, in a river in ancient India, there was a pond full of fish.

Time is a river, of which memory is the water. Oh myfriend, what I scoop up from the river is all yearning ofyou.

The mouth of a river where it flows into a larger body of water.

A new military forces in shanty to the east at Hu Wa Lane 3 about a small village between the two places are separated by a river.

An elderly workman was felling wood by the side of a river.

I would like to use a picture (to describe) : a bridge from one bank of a river to the other side, where you cn walk back and forth .

Most sewage is treated to a certain standard before release into natural body of waters usually a river or the sea.

A river flows, provides, creates, destroys, simultaneously a path and a boundary, even a gateway.

Another example is water pollution. Fifty years ago when I was a little boy, I lived by a river in a Swiss village.

It's great fun to jump into a pool or go swimming in a river in summer.

To die of hanging at the bottom of a river!

Blocking a river with a dam also blocks the movement of fish upstream to spawn and the movement of silt downstream to fertilise fields.