Sentence examples for the watercourses from inspiring English sources

Also in delicious color was a five-foot-long reproduction of Egbert Viele's map of the watercourses of Manhattan, $600.

The land then was bare rock without plants, except for some algae and tiny mosses along the watercourses.

Trees line the watercourses and shelter the farmlands, but mostly the view of rolling grasslands and crops stretches to the far horizon.

The study also details threats to the watercourses and coastlines of the city, including disposal of industrial waste and fishing equipment, plastic littering, oil spills and open defecation.

While the watercourses evidently played a part in the sacred geography of the city, they were fundamentally there to irrigate the rice fields, the source of the empire's great wealth.

Houses vanished, trees were uprooted like weeds, boulders taller than I pounded through the watercourses like the bowling balls of titans, and the slurry of mud and ash rose as high as fifteen feet in some places.

A wall of sapele, a type of Nigerian mahogany, hangs above the watercourse.

The two roadways and the promenade remain, but the watercourse and fountains have disappeared.

The várzeas fan out again as the watercourse approaches the Atlantic, but no delta extends into the ocean.

Al-Mukallā is the chief town and seaport; of the numerous smaller towns, many are near the watercourse.

The estate was first allowed to cull the gulls in the 1970s on the grounds that droppings were polluting the watercourse.