Sentence examples for noble river from inspiring English sources

There was the Hudson — more like the flash of a swordblade than a noble river.

He embarked on the Murrumbidgee River and was "hurried into a great and noble river [the Murray]." A week later he encountered another big river flowing into the Murray from the north, that he rightly concluded was the Darling, the middle course of which he had explored the year before.

Benjamin Disraeli, the Tory leader in the Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer, lamented how "that noble river" had become "a Stygian pool reeking with ineffable and unbearable horror", and introduced legislation "for the purification of the Thames and the main drainage of the metropolis".

The Thames was once the "noblest river in Europe", according to The Spectator's Joseph Addison in 1712.

When he thought of their noble, their exulting river, he saw in it a source of great and increasing prosperity.

She's probably tired from her noble battle down the river.

The Imperial Residence, cathedral and nobles' district overlook the river Regnitz, with the more impoverished dwellings on the other side.

In addition to some 2,000 single-story apartment compounds, the ruined city contains great plazas, temples, a canalized river, and palaces of nobles and priests.

As I looked at Sonam Dubal's noble evocation of Tibet and its rivers, I began to covet the long jackets and subtly textured layers.

"I was asked to comment on the river pageant, which was a very noble gesture," she said, speaking at a dinner event at the Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge.

Between Westminster and the City of London the great houses of nobles began to be built, with gardens down to the river and each with its own water gate.