Sentence examples for modest river from inspiring English sources

A tree-lined, gently rising and falling road called the Vallée de la Course follows a modest river and leads to the Auberge d'Inxent where this article began.

This was the route taken by the Seattle fishing fleet on its annual depredations of the surviving stock of Pacific salmon, halibut, crab, and herring — a route first surveyed and charted by George Vancouver in 1792 and 1793 in the Discovery, an expedition got up by the Admiralty... Parts of it are open ocean, parts no wider than a modest river.

Both take much of their character from modest rivers that they have turned to great effect.

If a single downtown building like the Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters separates the city from its river, a modest stretch of boardwalk knits them back together.

Hizir Baba 40 McDermott Avenue Riverhead (631) 591-3067 hizirbaba.com VERY GOOD THE SPACE Modest cottage with wonderful river views from outdoor seats.

The three-hour photo shoot, staged at five locations along the quaysides of the river, was modest in scale compared with the artist's previous projects, most notably a record-setting 7,000 bodies in Barcelona in 2003.

At several points east on the Danube, he posted modest forces to protect the river crossings there, and to dismantle, if necessary, the stone bridges across the river.

Augustine was born in Tagaste, a modest Roman community in a river valley 40 miles (64 km) from the Mediterranean coast in Africa, near the point where the veneer of Roman civilization thinned out in the highlands of Numidia.

The family-owned Mittelstand firms that cluster in and around this modest town alongside the Danube river were among the prime beneficiaries of Germany's export boom, the main source of growth until the world economy slumped in late 2008.That disaster has not shaken Ulm's self-confidence.

The Cistercian "white monks" (wearing undyed habits) first chose a site in Murel (now called Carrascosa de Tajo) on the Tagus, but after a few years, had to relocate to more fertile zone a few miles nearer to Trillo, Guadalajara, where a flat hilltop by the river commanded a modest view.

Finally, water from Auburn Dam, if connected to the long-unfinished Folsom South Canal as originally planned by Reclamation, would be costly and in unreliable supply as the annual inflows to the reservoir would be a relatively modest or, even though the river poses a high flood threat.