Gaetano Di Achille and Bryan Hynek, of the University of Colorado, led a team that analysed the distribution of supposed ancient delta deposits and river-valley networks on Mars. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ea, as I've also mentioned in a previous post, offers a quite sensible decryption of that enigma offered to Moses when he asks for the name of his God, the God of Abraham who came out of the Mesopotamian river-valley, from Ur of the Chaldeas (where Enki was a hero), up through Babylon perhaps (where Enki was known as Ea, where that identity was appropriated by Marduk), up to Haran and down into Canaan. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)
Alone in the Arab world, it has both water and oil -- a developed river-valley civilization and natural-resource wealth. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Five centuries ago, it covered a half-million square miles of mountain and river-valley terrain along the Brazilian coast. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
The old river-valley, shown by the scarp of the rocks, must have presented gigantic features, and the height of the trough-walls, at least a thousand feet, gives the Yellala a certain beauty and grandeur. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The engineers had to lay it in the very course of the winding river-valley: and to gain its development the line had to cross and recross the stream continually by a series of bridges, the farthest west and the farthest east of which were hardest to replace. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
This tension between Islamic dynamism and the older forces of the river-valley societies continued through medieval into modern times. ❋ Lewis, Bernard (1988)
A green ride lay almost unseen through the thickets on the right; and this they followed as it wound away back up the wooded slopes on to the top of a shoulder of the hills that stood out into the lower land of the river-valley. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
There was a sound as of a wind rising and spreading outwards to the branches of all the other trees round about, as though they had dropped a stone into the quiet slumber of the river-valley and set up ripples of anger that ran out over the whole Forest. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
Exposed to the full force of the winds, which are drawn through this river-valley as through a funnel, and with a foothold so narrow, it was easy to believe that neither man nor beast could pass here during the season of the northers, except at great risk of being dashed down the declivity. ❋ Various (N/A)
Instead of keeping along the river-valley, it passes directly over a high, rocky spur of the lateral mountains, through a pass called _El Portillo_, (The Portal,) elevated fifteen hundred feet above the sea. ❋ Various (N/A)
They must be either very near us in the hollow of the river-valley, or else a long way off. ' ❋ Desmond Byrne (N/A)
Chinese for miles along the river-valley to conceal themselves from the "license-man." ❋ Various (N/A)
You know how terrific a really big thunderstorm can be down in the land and in a river-valley; especially at times when two great thunderstorms meet and clash. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1938)
Beyond the mule train the road was empty and we climbed through the hills and then went down over the shoulder of a long hill into a river-valley. ❋ Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 (1929)
But the hotel has run down so that I don't think I can possibly stay there; and yet I can't bear to go away from this beautiful, peaceful river-valley -- it's just what I've been longing to find. ❋ Frances Parkinson Keyes (1927)
