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- noun Plural form of
river . - verb poker Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
river .
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Examples
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It was well known that rivers did fall into the St. Lawrence and into the Atlantic, that these rivers would run _down_ and not _up_, and it was consequently inferred that the _land_ from whence these _rivers_ flowed must of necessity be _high_, and unless there are to be found in that region
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren 1878
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Australia is not so fine a land as Europe, because it has not so many fine rivers; and it is fine _rivers_ that make a fine _land_.
Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840
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A communication is made between these rivers by an inland channel, which goes out of White river about three miles above its mouth, and about twenty miles up the Arkansas, connecting the waters of the two rivers*
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The arbiter appears to the undersigned to have viewed the rivers St. John and Restigouche as possessing both a specific and a generic character; that considered _alone_ they were _specific_ ', and the designation in the treaty of "rivers falling into the Atlantic" was inapplicable to them; that considered _In connection with other rivers_ they were _generic_ and were embraced in the terms of the treaty, but that as their connection with other rivers would bring them within a principle which, according to the views taken by him of other parts of the question, was equally realized by both lines, it would be hazardous to allow them any weight in deciding the disputed boundary.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren 1878
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Blue Fox spinners are also good for lakes, the only time I use them in rivers is if the water lacks clarity.
Anybody have any techniques for catching trout in lakes? All answers are appreciated! Thanks! 2009
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Blue Fox spinners are also good for lakes, the only time I use them in rivers is if the water lacks clarity.
Anybody have any techniques for catching trout in lakes? All answers are appreciated! Thanks! 2009
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Harvesting grocery-store-style plastic bags from the rivers is another major undertaking that represents huge-scale recycle/reuse.
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Nets tied under the booms and logs in the rivers is another means sometimes resorted to.
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Then you had given somebody what you call rivers of gold?
If: a play in four acts Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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So under the third trumpet, the third of the rivers is affected: also, under the sixth trumpet, the third part of men are killed.
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