Sentence examples for edge of a river from inspiring English sources

I spend half the summer in a cabin at the edge of a river that rose several feet above its banks in April.

The house sat beside one edge of a river valley and I knew that between the orchard at the opposite side and the next town was 20 miles of rock and pine.

Panther forced Mr. Peña to accompany him to the edge of a river where the paramilitaries threw the dead bodies that they chose not to cut up and bury.

The Old Granary Cottage Tide Mill Way, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 1BY, 01394 383793 theoldgranarycottage.co.uk £85, single £60 This converted 18th-century former granary cottage is situated on the edge of a river beside Suffolk's tide mill.

The most important of those accidents was geographic: New York arose on a smallish island rather than on the mainland edge of a river or a bay, and the surrounding water served as a physical constraint to outward expansion.

Mr Kunitz followed this ghost obsessively: across the bloody grass, through plum orchards, to the edge of a river, whereAmong the turtles and the lilies he turned to me The white ignorant hollow of his face.He wrote frequently of family, but almost never of his Jewishness.

Dotted along the edges of a river bed are hundreds of people, rhythmically banging wooden poles into the red earth.

Faster currents along the outside edges of a river's bends cause more erosion than along the inside edges, thus pushing the bends even farther out, and increasing the overall loopiness of the river.

Moose (Alces alces) at the edge of a frozen river.

The BBC report on Mr. Mehsud also showed video of Taliban fighters playing on the edge of a small river, tossing each other into the water, in what may have been an attempt by the insurgent movement to portray a lighter image of itself.

For about 20 years Vasquez lived in a tent that she made of plastic sheeting and wooden poles on the edge of a stinking river.