back-waters

By his precipitous choice of a running mate, Senator John McCain has inadvertently riled some murky Alaskan back-waters.

Archive 2008-09-01 2008

By his precipitous choice of a running mate, Senator John McCain has inadvertently riled some murky Alaskan back-waters.

Ronald Maxwell: On Banning Books and Hunting Witches 2008

The more distant view ranged over the flat eastward country beyond, speckled with its scattered little villages; crossed and recrossed by its network of “back-waters”; and terminated abruptly by the long straight line of sea-wall which protects the defenseless coast of Essex from invasion by the sea.

No Name 2003

Forum, a pleasant, bright and clean town built within a wide loop of the river that here begins to assume the dignity of a navigable stream, crawling lazily among the water meadows, with back-waters and cuts that bring to mind certain sections of the Upper Thames.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Heretofore we have had no American playwright sufficiently sensitive to these back-waters of human experience or articulate enough in reporting his observations to bring to us an American counterpart of "The Father" or "The Sea-Gull" or "The Awakening of Spring."

The Real Eugene O'Neil 1922

There were water-lilies in shady back-waters, and beautiful gardens sloping down to the water.

Harding's Luck Edith 1909

He noticed that one could have returned in a canoe in safety from the very brink of the falls by means of the back-waters that crept up the shore.

The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Hulbert Footner 1911

The life had probably not been of the most vivid order: for long periods, no doubt, it had fallen as noiselessly into the past as the quiet drizzle of autumn fell, hour after hour, into the green fish-pond between the yews; but these back-waters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion, and Mary Boyne had felt from the first the occasional brush of an intenser memory.

Afterward 1910

He kept to the banks, poking with a stick among the sandy bays and caves and little back-waters, myself always close on his heels.

The Willows Algernon Blackwood 1910

He left it at that for the time, but throughout the afternoon Mr. Direck had the gratification of seeing his thought floating round and round in the back-waters of Mr. Britling's mental current.

Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906