Sentence examples for The souris from inspiring English sources

The Souris (French: "mouse") flows through a region that is also rich in minerals.

Originally settled by French Acadians in 1748, the town was named via the river for the souris ("mice") that once plagued crops in the area.

The last time a major flood hit this city, North Dakota's fourth largest, was in 1969, and the widespread damage prompted the construction of new flood protection systems along the Souris, which sends its waters in a brief loop through North Dakota before returning to Canada.

To the north, the much lower Laurentian Divide separates the Missouri River watershed from those of the Oldman River, a tributary of the South Saskatchewan River, as well as the Souris, Sheyenne, and smaller tributaries of the Red River of the North.

An unprecedented — and still escalating — flood this week quickly overwhelmed those manmade defenses along the Souris, forcing a series of evacuations that displaced more than a quarter of the city's population.

Ms. Riabouchinska was spotted by Balanchine while dancing in a Schiaparelli costume in the Chauve Souris, a fashionable Paris revue.

The oysters are tested by government scientists using the "test du souris", or the mouse bioassay test.

Along with its two chief tributaries, the Qu'Appelle and Souris rivers, the Assiniboine drains one of Canada's major wheat-growing regions.

About two-fifths of the state is drained by the systems of the Red and Souris rivers, with roughly another two-fifths the Missouri Platwo-fifths theaMissourir system—drained by the Missouri River.

The fine claylike silt that accumulated on the bottom of Agassiz is responsible for the fertility of the valleys of the Red and Souris rivers.

The United States acquired the lands drained by the Red and Souris river systems (which from 1670 had been part of Rupert's Land) through the Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817 and the remainder of what became North Dakota from France through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.