Sentences with phrase «as the river narrows»

We wind our way through jungle, and as the river narrows we feel we can almost reach out and touch the houses and people who come out to cheer our ship on.

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The Lady herself is beautiful, as is the place where she appears, «in Lourdes / by the grotto, where you hear the rustle of the river and, / in the pure blue sky above the mountains, a narrow scrap of moon.»

The minister, Mr Burke said the river system constraints such as the Barmah Choke, Menindee Lakes and certain narrow channels had been well - explained in the consultation documents.

A bright lime - green flow could be seen in Oysterponds Creek and Narrow River in Orient Monday morning as the Southold Town... Read More

So Mr. Schwartz, who proposed a toll system for the East River bridges, came up with a «toll swap:» as new tolls were added to the bridges, existing tolls would be lowered on other bridges linking areas with few subway and transit alternatives, such as the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge linking Brooklyn and Staten Island.

«Oregon's Coos Bay historically has avoided serious hypoxic conditions: Narrow offshore shelf, a dredged ship channel and fresh river water combine to keep the bay flushed, but that could change as the climate warms.»

Predictive accuracies ranging from 89.4 % to as high as 99.1 % show that trained deep learning neural networks (DNNs) can identify weather fronts, tropical cyclones, and long narrow air flows that transport water vapor from the tropics called atmospheric rivers.

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

The Douro River was my companion as I pushed the A6 40 TDI through the winding narrow roads.

On a walk along the Campuhan Ridge outside Ubud, we saw the Lokha Resort & Spa overlooking a steep, narrow river valley and forest, decided to check out the rooms, loved it and booked a «Pool Villa» on the spot as the highlight of our Bali trip!

Head to Venice for the ultimate in romance as you explore the little rivers of the town by gondola, wander over pretty bridges and through narrow streets.

The Waikato River, normally up to 100 - metres wide, abruptly narrows to just 15 metres as it crosses a hard volcanic ledge north of Lake Taupo.

Incoming tides can also produce a tidal bore along a river or narrow bay as the water flow against the current results in a wave on the surface.

Ireland is known as the Emerald Isle for good reason: a patchwork of rolling green fields, shimmering lakes, meandering rivers, narrow roads, and stone walls add to the impression that rolled out before you is a luxurious welcome carpet, one knit of the legendary «forty shades of green.»

Traverse the narrow stretch of river known as the Canyon of Fire with help from your experienced guides, and then set up camp in beneath the jungle canopy to fall asleep to the sounds of chattering monkeys and exotic birds.

A paradise for nature lovers, hikers and trout fishers as well, San Gerardo de Dota is a tiny farming community that sits in the narrow valley of the Savegre River, an excellent place to catch trout.

Cross the River Tyne at Newcastle and stop at York for an orientation tour including the Gothic Minster and the narrow cobbled street known as the Shambles.

Located on a narrow spit of land between the Pacific Ocean and Crooked River, the park is a water lovers paradise, offering such varied pursuits as canoeing, beach, rock and estuary fishing, surfing, bodyboarding and wind - surfing.

Enjoy lunch as you navigate the narrow channels of Tonle River & relax onboard.

As a start, Red River has a more narrow focus than its predecessor, Dragon Rising.

Cao soon narrowed her work to focusing on communities in China, and in 2004, she had one of her greatest critical successes with COSplayers, a video in which people dress up as characters, fight each other using fake swords, and lounge in costume by a river.

Narrow Mind (1974) spells out its title with light from flares placed between train tracks in New Jersey, while Oppenheim proposed that a series of salutations, including Sincerely (2006), would be dug, in flowing, watery script, as an extension of the Sacramento River.

Incoming tides can also produce a tidal bore along a river or narrow bay as the water flow against the current results in a wave on the surface.

So Mr. Schwartz, who proposed a toll system for the East River bridges, came up with a «toll swap:» as new tolls were added to the bridges, existing tolls would be lowered on other bridges linking areas with few subway and transit alternatives, such as the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge linking Brooklyn and Staten Island.

The storms are being driven by an «atmospheric river,» which, as NOAA explains, is a «relatively narrow» region in the atmosphere «responsible for most of the horizontal transport of water vapor outside of the tropics.»

The storms, many of which have contained a narrow channel so rich in atmospheric water vapor that meteorologists refer to them as atmospheric rivers, are showing no signs of stopping, either.

The structure will rise and fall with the tidal river and will act as a promenade, allowing people to hop on and off via gangways to explore the narrow streets left over from Charles Dickens» times.The walk will be interspersed with eight glass - encased pavilions, possibly housing a museum, a cinema, a concert hall and an eco-park amongst other attractions.

In 1540, expeditions under Hernando de Alarcon and Melchior Diaz visited the area and immediately saw the natural crossing of the Colorado River as an ideal spot for a city, as the Colorado River narrows to slightly under 1,000 feet wide in one small...