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For the native peoples of the Amazon, the beginning of the end arrived one day early in 1500, when Spanish explorer Vicente Yáñez Pinzón eased his small ship into the mouth of the great river.
The Last Tribes Standing Gerard Helferich 2011
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Peering out through the brushes, Moshe could see thirty feet of sandy beach, strewn with seaweed, gently sloping down to the banks of the great river.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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And Charlotte stepped carefully into the boat, and he began to row across the great river, through to the Land of the Dead.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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And Charlotte stepped carefully into the boat, and he began to row across the great river, through to the Land of the Dead.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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And Charlotte stepped carefully into the boat, and he began to row across the great river, through to the Land of the Dead.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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But traffic thinned out where the wide road known as the ridgeward Istri Walk pushed into the north alongside the great river.
Spirit Gate 2006
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And Charlotte stepped carefully into the boat, and he began to row across the great river, through to the Land of the Dead.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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The current of traffic had hitherto run to and fro between east and west, the trend of the railways was in that direction; the traffic in the north and south direction had come to Danzig along the great river.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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And Charlotte stepped carefully into the boat, and he began to row across the great river, through to the Land of the Dead.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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Ferry The soft, full light of a late summer morning revealed a straggling group of humans-a foraging party-carrying empty sacks and crude buckets along the receded waters of the great river.
Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005
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