Sentence examples for a great river from inspiring English sources

In her 30s, she wrote her magnum opus, Aag ka Darya - published in English for the first time in 1998 as River of Fire - a great river of a novel, majestic in its sweep, grand in its vision.

It moves me like a weed in a great river".

A great river looped through it, and there were bare mountains in the distance.

Tributary streams from all directions are gently marshalled into a great river of humanity.

I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources.

Ah, whiskey is a great river... Is that a sunspot or a swan?... What do I miss most at my age?... Seeing the stars.

Like Egypt it exists around a single great river, though the Indus is nearly twice the Nile's size when it reaches the sea.

"Zaire" is a variation of a term meaning "great river" in local African languages; like the country's current name, it refers to the Congo River, which drains a large basin that lies mostly in the republic.

India is a civilization of great river systems and large-scale irrigation, thanks to the Himalayan snowmelt and glacier melt and the annual monsoon rains.

Navigable for 168 miles (270 km) to Telegraph Creek, B.C., the Stikine (an Indian word meaning "great river") is a chief route to the Cassiar Mountains mining region.

The area is forested and unspoiled, the nearest place to St Louis where you get a sense of how the great river looked before a great metropolis arose on its banks.