"East coast" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... extensive basin of the Murray. We were at length on channels evidently distinct, both from those leading to the eastern coast and those belonging to the basin of the Murray. The beds of the rivers flowing to the east coast are chiefly rocky, containing much sand but very little mud, consequently no reeds grow on their banks, nor is the freshwater mussel found in them, as in rivers on the interior side, which in general flow over a muddy bed and are not unfrequently ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell
... her all about it—how he had arranged everything, got a room, meant to have his name painted on the door, meant to make his parents take their holiday on the north-east coast for a change, so that he could study the site, meant to work like a hundred devils, etc. He saw with satisfaction that the arrogant, ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett
... the land offered little prospect of wealth for the moment, there were considerable treasures to be found beneath it. A metalliferous bolt runs down the whole east coast of the Greek mainland, cropping up again in many of the Aegean islands, and some of the ores, of which there is a great variety, are rare and valuable. The lack of transit facilities is partly remedied by the fact that workable veins often lie near ...
— The Balkans - A History Of Bulgaria--Serbia--Greece--Rumania--Turkey • Nevill Forbes, Arnold J. Toynbee, D. Mitrany, D.G. Hogarth
... Zeppelin airship attacked the north-east coast of England on Wednesday afternoon, but was driven off ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 • Various
... Mnemos'y-ne, mother of the Nine Muses. Mnes'icles, a sculptor. Mnes'theus.—A great-grandson of Erechtheus, who deprived Theseus of the throne of Athens, and led the Athenians in the Trojan war. Molda'via. Monembasi'a. On the south-east coast of Laconia. More'a. Morosi'ni, a Venetian admiral. Mum'mius, a Roman consul. MURE, WILLIAM.—The "Works and Days" of Hesiod. Alcman. Muses, the Nine. Mye'a-le. Defeat of Persians at. Myce'nae. My'ron, a painter. Myr'tis, a poetess. Mys'la ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson
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