Hitchcock was our mountains and our rivers, curled permanently into our brainpans.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They seemed like a permanent part of the mindscape, the way mountains or rivers are part of the physical world.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But who cleans lakes and streams and rivers and makes them fishable and swimmable again?
Democrats Are Petrified of Defending Government—but They Need to Start|Michael Tomasky|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Near the confluence of these two rivers a tiny bridge spans the gap connecting the Korengal with the Pech.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then again some comics like Rivers, Essman and Behar are blunt in their discussion of sexism.
Comedians and Feminism Getting Laughs|Agunda Okeyo|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Men go sighing on, drinking their rivers of pleasure and climbing their mountains of vanity.
The Hart and the Water-Brooks;|John R. Macduff
Other children were thrown into rivers and those who could swim were shot down as they struggled in the water.
With Our Soldiers in France|Sherwood Eddy
But do not the turnpikes, or fall-stops, with which these rivers are thickset, contravene also the rights of nature?
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI)|Various
The presence of rivers is at once made evident by slanting the page and looking along its surface, across the lines.
Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering|Edward Johnston
Rivers their uncle was beheaded; so were their half-brother Grey and many more of their mother's kinsmen and friends.
The Children of Westminster Abbey|Rose G. Kingsley
British Dictionary definitions for Rivers
Rivers
/ (ˈrɪvəz) /
noun
a state of S Nigeria, in the Niger river delta on the Gulf of Guinea. Capital: Port Harcourt. Pop: 5 185 400 (2006). Area: 11 077 sq km (4277 sq miles)