After some days, the barbarian army was descried coming down the Silenos river-plain. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)
The hills had grown much higher and come closer to the river-plain; up the gullies I would catch now and then an aged and uncouth bridge with a hut near it all built of enduring stone: part of the hills. ❋ Hilaire Belloc (1911)
In the marine formations are found the fossil remains of the sea-animals of the period; in the coast and delta formations are the remains of those which inhabited the marshes and forests of the coast regions; while the animals of the dryland, of plains and upland, left their remains in the river-plain formations. ❋ William Diller Matthew (1900)
Manyuen — or, to use the name by which it is better known to foreigners, Manwyne — is a large and straggling town overlooking the river-plain. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)
The mud villages were far apart on the margin of the river-plain, inclosed with superb hedges of living bamboo. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)
A low wooded ridge bounded the river-plain to the south and south-east, whence we had come, and a few low houses lay about its feet and up its slope. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Manwyne -- is a large and straggling town overlooking the river-plain. ❋ George Ernest Morrison (1891)
It is remarkable that the smallest of all -- the Hapali pygmaeus, measuring only seven inches in length of body -- is among the most widely dispersed, having found its way into Mexico: the only monkey known to have wandered far from the great river-plain. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Next in the order of antiquity are the lower-level gravels, Number 2, which we have now to describe; after which the alluvium, Number 3, found at higher levels, or about 80 and 100 feet above the river-plain, will remain to be considered. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
The height, therefore, of the hills, in relation to the river-plain, could not be correctly represented in the annexed diagram (Figure 7), as they would have to be reduced in altitude; or if not, it would be necessary to make the space between c and b four times as great. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
On the failure of this icy barrier the accumulated waters, being let loose, sweep away and level many a transverse mound of gravel and loose boulders below, and spread their materials in confused and irregular beds over the river-plain. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
