Sentence examples for prosperous river from inspiring English sources

Al-Ḥillah is now a prosperous river port and grain market.

2. Lambertville: Once, when the railroad was king, Lambertville, a prosperous river town, duked it out with land-locked Flemington for county seat status.

This prosperous river town has been on the doorstep of Western Europe for so long that when Hungary and nine other Central European countries join the European Union next May, it will barely register in the humming factories and bustling shops here.

For those interested in history and architecture, the Old Louisville neighborhood has the largest collection of Victorian homes in the U.S. As a well-situated and prosperous river town during the Civil War, and having sided with the North, Louisville, though threatened, was never attacked and survived pretty much intact.

In 1811 the steamboat "New Orleans" called there, opening a prosperous era of river traffic.

The general area was attractive to early developers because it gave access to a prosperous hinterland and navigable rivers, but the actual site was not good, as it was remote and low-lying with no fresh water.

But the sawmills and plywood factories that line the lower reaches of the river, near the prosperous port of Samarinda, consume far more wood than the forests can legally produce.

As a youth pastor, Hall frequently uses Psalms 1, which metaphorically compares the concept of a righteous man to a prosperous tree planted by a river.

Rivers meander between prosperous towns dotted across the countryside.

This was a prosperous cloth-making place when the river Frome drove the mills and the classical proportions of the buildings of Bath were in fashion.

They are remnants of an era when the Hudson was a busy shipping lane, and steamships and whalers plied the waters, carrying goods to and from the prosperous manufacturing towns that lined the river.