Sentence examples for fleet river from inspiring English sources

But those desperate scenes played out on Wapping Highway, where 5,000 jobs disappeared like hot metal tipped into the Fleet river, and the damage done to the industry by Murdoch's actions will never be forgotten.

Mount Pleasant, in central London, is Dickens territory: once known as the site of Coldbath Fields prison, the Fleet river and one of the biggest post sorting offices in the world.

Following a ritual visit to Thebes, Piye's forces met the Libyans' river fleet and defeated it.

At least two new vessels will join the fleet of European river cruisers this year, the 140-passenger River Princess and the 120-passenger Rhone Princess.

We happened upon this rather incongruous vessel (which began life as part of the Soviet river fleet) almost by accident, after we decided to leave the island a day early.

Motivated by a desire for military glory and a decision to reassert Rome's preeminence in the East, he assembled, despite counsels of prudence from Rome and the Levant, the largest Roman army (65,000 strong and backed by a river fleet) ever to head a campaign against Persia.

MOSCOW — Nine people drowned when a riverboat collided with a barge in the Moscow River early Sunday, three weeks after a major cruise boat disaster on the Volga River that has caused anger and soul-searching over the dilapidated state of Russia's river fleet.

He had come to La Esmeralda to give a fleet of fibreglass river ambulances with new outboard motors to the area's isolated Indian communities, and to inaugurate an indigenous-people's radio station, which had been set up by the National Guard.

Standing directly above the subterranean river Fleet in the central reservation on Farringdon Street, I think I know how he felt … I'm on the inaugural "immersive tour" of Fleet Street entitled Hawkers, Harlots and Hacks.

Renovating simply cutting stem is better, but it is still not perfect for the large river fleet.

Union forces bombarded the city all night, from 220 artillery pieces and naval gunfire from Rear Adm. David D. Porter's fleet in the river, and while causing little property damage, they damaged Confederate civilian morale.