Sentence examples for empty river from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mason calmly negotiated a compromise: The Southerners fired five artillery shots across the empty river and went peacefully on their way.

He has ridden over infinite bridges, some with roofs below, many where the afternoon glittered like mica on the empty river.

She looked across the empty river where very few boats now run, and watched a heron glide to land on a clump of bulrushes.

Here we found an empty river that had been cemented in.

Wm Paul Young: I have often talked about writing The Shack and Cross Roads as 'jumping into an empty river and being swept downstream' but when I plunged into the work of EVE, I found the river already full of people and boats and this required unusual care and respectful navigation.

The point source at Bubastis is set to zero, and the water in the Pelusiac branch of the Nile is eliminated entirely, leaving an empty river channel from Bubastis to Daphnae.

Used buckets to empty rivers of rainwater when the same temporary accommodation flooded during the wet season.

A hydrological drought is when the lack of rainfall goes on long enough to empty rivers and lower water tables.

In China, fishermen hunt with trained cormorants, but in Europe the protected species is a hated rival, blamed for emptying rivers of fish.

During rainstorms, debris floats into drains that empty into rivers.

He hooks alligators from trees in Louisiana and empties Alaskan rivers of hundreds of salmon.