"Riverbed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fortunes out of it, though, on such terms, and don't turn up their noses at a reef if they can get one ounce of it of a ton. This riverbed's rich, Sir Humphrey, and ready for explorers and prospectors. But let's try that sand-bank ...
— Old Gold - The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig • George Manville Fenn
... a line of development like this, he must be aware that, while change is there, it is not aimless, discontinuous, chaotic change. The riverbed in which this stream of thought flows is stable and secure; the whole development is controlled by man's abiding spiritual need of God and God's unceasing search for man. One feels about it as he might about man's varying, developing methods of telling the time ...
— Christianity and Progress • Harry Emerson Fosdick
... others slipped on the floating baggage, lost their foothold, and were swept away by the flood. Yet still they poured on, by hundreds and by thousands, drawn by the same longing, and thrust downwards by the weight of those behind, until the whole riverbed was filled with a huddled, surging mob of furious men, who drank, and still drank, or fought with one another to reach the water. All this time an iron storm of missiles rained down upon them from the thronging hosts of their enemies on the banks above, while some, in the midst ...
— Stories From Thucydides • H. L. Havell |
