"Waterway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for a moment and you will see that in enemy hands it formed a very effective jumping-off place for an attack on the southern terminus of the most important commercial waterway in the world and a vital artery of the British Empire. Moreover, it was very difficult of attack, for it was defended by a range of exceedingly unpleasant and precipitous hills, the passes through which were held by the Turks. Hence the agitation of the authorities and the sudden importance ...
— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett
... hunt it was more convenient for these men to take their supplies to their tilts by boat up the Grand River than to haul them in on toboggans on the spring ice, as nearly every other hunter, whose trapping ground was not upon so good a waterway, was compelled to do, and so it was that they were now at the trading post selecting their outfits preparatory to starting inland before the very cold winter should bind the river in its ...
— Ungava Bob - A Winter's Tale • Dillon Wallace
... In Lehi party, Church officer, photo. Rogers, J.K. Leader in Gila settlement, photo. Rogers, Josephine Wall Photo. Rogers, Samuel H. Battalion member, photo. Roundy, Lorenzo W. Led party across Colorado r., drowned, photo. Rusling, Gen. J.F. Recommended use of Colorado r. as waterway ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... wife of a member of the Anglican Church, which, as well as the Catholic Church, has missions all along the great waterway almost to the Arctic Sea. So that, as may be seen, the personnel of the brigade that year was ...
— Young Alaskans in the Far North • Emerson Hough
... only carried sixteen men. The boat builders worked where enemy airmen could not see them, and when the craft were completed the troops were practised at night in embarking and ferrying across a waterway—for this purpose the craft were put on a big pond—and in cutting a path through thick cactus hedges in the dark. During these preparations the artillery was also active. They took their guns up ...
— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey
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